Description: This essay on Soren Kierkegaard and economic matters
from a theological perspective is well grounded in the Dane's
journals. In these writings, the late nineteenth-century thinker
shows his solidarity with rural residents (90 percent of the
population) and urbanite menial workers. Topics include the option
for the poor; the ideology of impotence; the denouncing of a
competitive society; the correlation of wealth and poverty; media,
church, university, and theater as social institutions shaping
reality; Christendom; and the retribution doctrine. A Vexing Gadfly
develops the theological themes within the timeframe of ""Golden
Age Denmark"" (1800-1860), which includes the period of Denmark's
colonial activities. The historical approach adds flesh to the
bones of abstract thought and ahistorical doctrines. Contrary to
common belief, Kierkegaard did articulate economic issues through
structural categories such as the age, the pyramid, the building,
the external revolution, ""the Fire Chief,"" and his diagnosis of
society. Ironically, the domestication of Kierkegaard's economic
thought took place from the time of his death on November 11, 1855.
His eulogy took place at the most important church of the country,
the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen; his burial at Assistens
Cemetery was with full pomp; and by 1971, his statue joined the
select club of Mynster, Martensen, Grundvigt, et al., as they
surround the wealthy Marble Church. Endorsements: ""Finally After
decades of reading and interpreting Kierkegaard as the
solitary--and somewhat eccentric--knight of faith, Perez Alvarez
calls our attention to a different Kierkegaard, one deeply engaged
in the economic and social issues of his time. In presenting a
hitherto discounted and almost unknown Kierkegaard, this book not
only corrects much of our traditional understanding, but also leads
one to wonder why in the twentieth century we became so enamored
with what was clearly a truncated view of the great Danish
theologian."" --Justo L. Gonzalez, author of A History of Christian
Thought ""A Vexing Gadfly is an extraordinary presentation of the
radical economic, social, and political views of the later
Kierkegaard as he prophetically and vehemently castigated the
nineteenth-century Danish church, state, and their theology and
ideology. Dr. Eliseo Perez-Alvares captures Kierkegaard's
penetrating critique of the social-economic oppression of the
marginalized with its relevance for contemporary theology. The
cutting irony of a nineteenth-century Dane becomes a powerful voice
through a twenty-first-century liberation theologian."" --Mark
Thomsen, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Perez-Alvares
presents us with a Kierkegaard that is little known: a theologian
connected to his time of profound social changes, which takes the
side of poor people and produces keen theological reflections
regarding economy. Our time is also marked by crises and economic
changes that affect the lives of millions of persons. What does
Christian theology have to say to the world today? This book is a
valuable contribution in the elaboration of this response. --Jung
Mo Sung, author of Desire, Market and Religion About the
Contributor(s): Eliseo Perez-Alvarez is Associate Professor of
Contextual Theology and Praxis at the Lutheran Seminary Program in
the Southwest in Austin. He is the author of We Be Jammin:
Liberating Discourses from the Land of the Seven Flags, The Gospel
to the Calypsonians: the Caribbean, Bible and Liberation Theology,
and Comentario de Marcos
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