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Kierkegaard and Mysticism: Reception, Influence, Resonance book cover

1st Edition

Kierkegaard and Mysticism Reception, Influence, Resonance

Edited By Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal Copyright 2026
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge
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Kierkegaard and Mysticism brings together scholars who show that reading Søren Kierkegaard from the perspective of mysticism not only sheds new light on the Dane’s thought but also offers a fresh approach to mysticism as such, considering its relevance for existential questions, ethics, inter-faith dialogues, and socio-political criticism. The three sections focus on: reception history,... Read more

Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword: The Master of Irony and the Mystical Canon by Markus Kleinert

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

 

Kierkegaard and Mysticism? An Introduction

Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal

Part I: Kierkegaard and the Mystical Tradition

1. Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Kenotic Existence

Lee C. Barrett

2. Agency and Contemplation: Neptic Themes in Kierkegaard

Daniel Watts

3. Unio Mystica and the Infinite Difference Between God and Human Being: Kierkegaard and Tauler

Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal

4. Justification and Sanctification: Luther, Arndt, and Kierkegaard’s Inheritance of Theologia Deutsch

David Lawrence Coe

5. Purity of Heart and the Pure Love of God: Kierkegaard and Fénelon

George Pattison

6. Modern Devotion: Thomas à Kempis, Søren Kierkegaard, and the Question of the Unio Mystica

Joel D. S. Rasmussen

7. “Upbuilding Religious Popular-Philosophy”: Martensen’s Eckhart and Kierkegaard’s Defense of Mysticism

Elizabeth Li

Part II: Approaching Mysticism With Kierkegaard 

8. The Mystical Horizon: The Temptation of Mysticism and the Transfiguration of Unio Mystica

Simon D. Podmore

9. Re-thinking Spirituality with Kierkegaard: the First Schleswig War and the Turn to Imitatio Christi

Christopher B. Barnett

10. Contemplative Withdrawal and Ethical Life: A Kierkegaardian Critique

Rob Compaijen

11. Muslim Sufism and Kierkegaard’s Mysticism: Returning to the Finite World

Christopher Braddock

12. Kierkegaard and the Three Characteristics of Existence in Buddhism

Jack Mulder, Jr.

 

Part III: Mysticism After Kierkegaard

13. Contemporaneity with Christ: Cornelio Fabro’s Kierkegaardian Approach to the Mystical Writings of St. Gemma Galgani

Joshua Furnal

14. Antigone Again? Reading Kierkegaard and Simone Weil

Deborah Casewell

15. Against the Hierarchization of Religion and Ethics: The Opposition of Hasidism and Kierkegaard in Martin Buber

Peter Šajda

16. The Stranger Within: Kierkegaard, Mysticism, and the Unconscious

Peter Kline

Index

Biography

Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal is an affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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