Kierkegaard and Theology

by Rae, Murray A.

• ISBN13: 9780567033130
• ISBN10: 0567033139
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-12
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

Kierkegaard is in many respects an enigmatic figure. About half of his published work appears under an array of pseudonyms and Kierkegaard himself advises that readers should not presume his agreement with any of the views appearing under pseudonymous authorship. Alongside the pseudonymous works are a long series of discourses published under Kierkegaard's own name, and accompanying the whole corpus are six volumes of Journals in which Kierkegaard experiments with ideas and makes note of his own questions and discoveries. Kierkegaard's concern throughout the authorship was to make clear, in opposition to the corrosive forces of Christendom and the posturing of contemporary philosophy, what authentic Christian faith consists in.

Author Biography

Murray Rae is Associate Professor of Theology at The University of Otago, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction and Disclaimer	p. 1
A Life Directed by Governance	p. 5
What it Means to Become a Christian	p. 35
Can the Truth be Learned?	p. 37
The Objective Inquirer	p. 43
The Subjective Inquirer	p. 48
The 'What' and the 'How'	p. 52
The Possibility of Faith	p. 54
Jesus Christ	p. 58
Historical Actuality	p. 62
The Lowliness of Christ	p. 64
The Loftiness of Christ	p. 66
Historical Inquiry	p. 68
Being Contemporary with Christ	p. 78
The Human Predicament	p. 83
The Aesthetic	p. 85
The Ethical	p. 86
The Consciousness of Sin	p. 90
Everything Must Serve for Upbuilding	p. 95
Consciousness of the Self	p. 97
Forgiveness	p. 98
Atonement	p. 101
Judgement	p. 103
Grace	p. 104
Practice in Christianity	p. 108
The Requirement	p. 109
The Life of Devotion	p. 113
Obedience	p. 118
The Limits of the Ethical	p. 120
Can Abraham be Justified?	p. 123
Further Questions	p. 128
Works of Love and the Assistance of Grace	p. 133
Becoming a Self Through Love	p. 134
Love Your Neighbour	p. 137
God is the Middle Term	p. 141
Works Righteousness?	p. 142
A Corrective	p. 144
No One Can Serve Two Masters	p. 145
Cheap Grace/Costly Grace	p. 150
Does Christianity Exist?	p. 152
Obedience as Witness	p. 155
God's Enabling	p. 157
The Spirit Gives Life	p. 161
Christ Fulfils the Law	p. 163
In Conclusion	p. 164
Reckoning with Kierkegaard	p. 166
Notes	p. 181
Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 213
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