For Self-Examination and Judge for Yourself! : International Kierkegaard Commentary

by Perkins, Robert L.

• ISBN13: 9780865548244
• ISBN10: 0865548242
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr

Summary

For the first time in English the world community of scholars is systematically assembling and presenting the results of recent research in the vast literature of Soren Kierkegaard. Based on the definitive English edition of Kierkegaard's works by Princeton University Press, this series of commentaries addresses all the published texts of the influential Danish philosopher and theologian.

Author Biography

Editor Robert L. Perkins is senior research professor of Philosophy at Stetson University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
In Memoriam	ix
Sigla	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
Authorial Voices and the Limits of Communication in Kierkegaard's Signed Literature: A Comparison of Works of Love to For Self-Examination and Judge For Yourself!	13	(24)
Lee C. Barrett
Will the Real Martin Luther Please Stand Up! Kierkegaard's View of Luther vs. the Evolving Perceptions of the Tradition	37	(40)
Craig Q. Hinkson
Faith, Works, and the Uses of the Law: Kierkegaard's Appropriation of Lutheran Doctrine	77	(34)
Lee Barrett
Cheap Grace and the Cost of Discipleship in Kierkegaard's For Self-Examination	111	(32)
David R. Law
Kierkegaard, Barth, and Bonhoeffer: Conceptions of the Relation between Grace and Works	143	(26)
Murray Rae
Dying to the World and Self-Denial in Kierkegaard's Religious Thought	169	(30)
Sylvia Walsh
The Emergence of the Holy Spirit in Kierkegaard's Thought: Critical Theological Developments in For Self-Examination and Judge for Yourself!	199	(24)
Paul Martens
Silence, Domesticity, and Joy: The Spiritual Life of Women in Kierkegaard's For Self-Examination	223	(36)
Louise Carroll Keeley
Whence the Authority of God's Word?	259	(28)
John H. Whittaker
The Letter from the Lover: Kierkegaard on the Bible and Belief	287	(28)
Julia Watkin
A Star in a Cross, Getting the Dialectic Right	315	(20)
David Cain
The Mirror	335	(28)
Martin Andic
Notes on Contributors	363	(1)
International Kierkegaard Commentary Advisory Board	364	(1)
Previous Volume Consultants	365	(2)
Index	367