Hailed in Sacred Scripture as the “beginning of wisdom” (Ps
111:10), the “fear of the Lord” is seldom mentioned and little
understood today. A gift of the Spirit and a moral virtue or
disposition, the “fear of the Lord” also frequently entails
emotional experiences of differing kinds: compunction, dread,
reverence, wonderment, and awe. Starting with the Bible itself,
this collection of seventeen essays explores the place of holy fear
in Christian spirituality from the early church to the present and
argues that this fear is paradoxically linked in various ways to
fear’s seeming opposite, love. Indeed, the charged dynamic of
love and fear accounts for different experiences and expressions of
Christian life in response to changing historical circumstances and
events. The writings of the theologians, mystics, philosophers,
saints, and artists studied here reveal the relationship between
the fear and the love of God to be profoundly challenging and
mysterious, its elements paradoxically conjoined in a creative
tension with each other, but also tending to oscillate
back-and-forth in the history of Christian spirituality as first
one, then the other, comes to the fore, sometimes to correct a
perceived imbalance, sometimes at the risk of losing its companion
altogether. Given this historical pattern, clearly evident in these
chronologically arranged essays, the palpable absence of a
discourse of holy fear from the mainstream theological landscape
should give us pause and invite us to consider if and how—under
what aspect, in which contexts—a holy fear, inseparable from
love, might be regained or discovered anew within Christian
spirituality as a remedy both for a crippling anxiety and for a
presumptive recklessness. This book will be of interest to students
and scholars of Christian spirituality, theology, biblical studies,
religious studies, and religion and literature. Contributors: Ann
W. Astell, Pieter G. R. de Villiers, Donna R. Hawk-Reinhard, John
Sehorn, Catherine Rose Cavadini, Joseph Wawrykow, Robert Boenig,
Ralph Keen, Wendy M. Wright, Ephraim Radner, Julia A. Lamm, Cyril
O’Regan, Brenna Moore, Maj-Britt Frenze, and Todd Walatka
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