1st Edition
Volume 10, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Theology German Protestant Theology
Edited By Jon Stewart
Copyright 2012
428 Pages
by
Routledge
428 Pages
by
Routledge
428 Pages
by
Routledge
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Kierkegaard has always enjoyed a rich reception in the fields of theology and religious studies. This reception might seem obvious given that he is one of the most important Christian writers of the nineteenth century, but Kierkegaard was by no means a straightforward theologian in any traditional sense. He had no enduring interest in some of the main fields of theology such as church history or... Read more
Contents: Preface; Karl Barth: the dialectic of attraction and repulsion, Lee C. Barrett; Dietrich Bonhoeffer: standing 'in the tradition of Paul, Luther, Kierkegaard, in the tradition of genuine Christian thinking', Christiane Tietz; Emil Brunner: polemically promoting Kierkegaard's Christian philosophy of encounter, Curtis L. Thompson; Rudolf Bultmann: faith, love and self-understanding, Heiko Schulz; Gerhard Ebeling: appreciation and critical appropriation of Kierkegaard, Derek R. Nelson; Emanuel Hirsch: a Germanic dialogue with 'Saint Søren', Matthias Wilke; Jurgen Moltmann: taking a moment for Trinitarian eschatology, Curtis L. Thompson; Franz Overbeck: Kierkegaard and the decay of Christianity, David R. Law; Wolfhart Pannenberg: Kierkegaard's anthropology tantalizing public theology's reasoning hope, Curtis L. Thompson; Christoph Schrempf: the 'Swabian Socrates' as translator of Kierkegaard, Gerhard Schreiber; Helmut Thielicke: Kierkegaard's subjectivity for a theology of being, Kyle A. Roberts; Paul Tillich: an ambivalent appropriation, Lee C. Barrett; Ernst Troeltsch: Kierkegaard, compromise and dialectical theology, Mark Chapman; Indexes.
Biography
Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
'As expected of this impressive series, these essays are impeccably researched, proving extremely valuable both for Kierkegaard scholarship and those wishing to map theological trajectories more generally.' Theological Book Review 'These essays will be of interest to more that Kierkegaard students. They are relevant to anyone interested in twentieth-century theology'. The Lutheran Quarterly
