Struggling with God - Kierkegaard and the Temptation of Spiritual Trial (Paperback, New)

Invoking the biblical motif of Jacob's struggle with the Face of God (Genesis 32), Simon D. Podmore undertakes a constructive theological account of 'spiritual trial' (tentatio; known in German mystical and Lutheran tradition as Anfechtung) in relation to enduring questions of the otherness and hiddenness of God and the self, the problem of suffering and evil, the freedom of Spirit, and the anxious relationship between temptation and ordeal, fear and desire. This book traces a genealogy of spiritual trial from medieval German mystical theology, through Lutheran and Pietistic thought (Tauler; Luther; Arndt; Boehme), and reconstructs Kierkegaard's innovative yet under-examined recovery of the category (Anfaegtelse: a Danish cognate for Anfechtung) within the modern context of the 'spiritless' decline of Christendom. Developing the relationship between struggle (Anfechtung) and release (Gelassenheit), Podmore proposes a Kierkegaardian theology of spiritual trial that elaborates the kenosis of the self before God in terms of Spirit's restless longing to rest transparently in God. Offering an original rehabilitation of the temptation of spiritual trial, this book strives for a renewed theological hermeneutic that speaks to the enduring human struggle to realise the unchanging love of God in the face of spiritual darkness. Dr Simon D. Podmore is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Liverpool Hope University. He is author of 'Kierkegaard and the Self Before God: Anatomy of the Abyss' and numerous articles and essays in philosophical, pastoral, and systematic theology. He is also Secretary of the Soren Kierkegaard Society of the United Kingdom

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Imprint:	James Clarke & Co
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	N/A
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Simon D Podmore
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	294
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-227-17343-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian theology > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian religious experience > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian religious experience > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian theology > General Books > Christianity > Christian Religious Experience Books > Christianity > Christian theology Promotions
LSN:	0-227-17343-0
Barcode:	9780227173435

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