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T&T Clark Reader in Kierkegaard as Theologian presents an
anthology of Kierkegaard's most influential works. Lee Barrett
examines Kierkegaard's explicit reflections on the appropriate
passionately engaged way to engage in the theological task, by
discussing such key themes as the nature and purpose of human life,
sin both as a disease and as a culpable act, faith, and the
perception of Christ as the enactment in time of God's eternal
self-giving compassion. Never before gathered together in one
place, the texts featured in this reader include The Concept of
Anxiety, Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses, Philosophical Crumbs and
Works of Love. Additional links to further critical Kierkegaardian
texts are provided by the Kierkegaard Research Center of the
University of Copenhagen, the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard
Library of St Olaf College, and the resources of the Soren
Kierkegaard Society. With each chapter featuring an introduction,
explanatory notes, discussion questions and recommendation for
further reading in both the primary and secondary literature,
students will be able to fully discern and understand the
theological dimensions of Kierkegaard's works.
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Exploring Kierkegaard's complex use of the Bible, the essays in
this volume use source-critical research and tools ranging from
literary criticism to theology and biblical studies, to situate
Kierkegaard's appropriation of the biblical material in his
cultural and intellectual context. The contributors seek to
identify the possible sources that may have influenced
Kierkegaard's understanding and employment of Scripture, and to
describe the debates about the Bible that may have shaped, perhaps
indirectly, his attitudes toward Scripture. They also pay close
attention to Kierkegaard's actual hermeneutic practice, analyzing
the implicit interpretive moves that he makes as well as his more
explicit statements about the significance of various biblical
passages. This close reading of Kierkegaard's texts elucidates the
unique and sometimes odd features of his frequent appeals to
Scripture. This volume in the series devotes one tome to the Old
Testament and a second tome to the New Testament. As with the Old
Testament, Kierkegaard was aware of new developments in New
Testament scholarship, and troubled by them. Because these
scholarly projects generated alternative understandings of the
significance of Jesus, they impinged directly on his own work. It
was crucial for Kierkegaard that Jesus is presented as both the
enactment of God's reconciliation with humanity and as the
prototype for humanity to emulate. Consequently, Kierkegaard had to
struggle with the proper way to explicate persuasively the
significance of Jesus in a situation of decreasing academic
consensus about Jesus. He also had to contend with contested
interpretations of James and Paul, two biblical authors vital for
his work. As a result, Kierkegaard ruminated about the proper way
to appropriate the New Testament and used material from it
carefully and deliberately. The authors in the present New
Testament tome seek to clarify different dimensions of
Kierkegaard's interpretive theory and practice as he sought to
avoid the twin pitfalls of academic skepticism and passionless
biblical traditionalism.
Exploring Kierkegaard's complex use of the Bible, the essays in
this volume use source-critical research and tools ranging from
literary criticism to theology and biblical studies, to situate
Kierkegaard's appropriation of the biblical material in his
cultural and intellectual context. The contributors seek to
identify the possible sources that may have influenced
Kierkegaard's understanding and employment of Scripture, and to
describe the debates about the Bible that may have shaped, perhaps
indirectly, his attitudes toward Scripture. They also pay close
attention to Kierkegaard's actual hermeneutic practice, analyzing
the implicit interpretive moves that he makes as well as his more
explicit statements about the significance of various biblical
passages. This close reading of Kierkegaard's texts elucidates the
unique and sometimes odd features of his frequent appeals to
Scripture. This volume in the series devotes one tome to the Old
Testament and a second tome to the New Testament. Tome I considers
the canonically disputed literature of the Apocrypha. Although
Kierkegaard certainly cited the Old Testament much less frequently
than he did the New, passages and themes from the Old Testament do
occupy a position of startling importance in his writings. Old
Testament characters such as Abraham and Job often play crucial and
even decisive roles in his texts. Snatches of Old Testament wisdom
figure prominently in his edifying literature. The vocabulary and
cadences of the Psalms saturate his expression of the range of
human passions from joy to despair. The essays in this first tome
seek to elucidate the crucial rhetorical uses to which he put key
passages from the Old Testament, the sources that influenced him to
do this, and his reasons for doing so.
In his teaching and his writing, Paul L. Holmer (1916-2004),
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota (1946-1960)
and Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale
Divinity School (1960-1987), made many important contributions to
recent American theology. One of the most insightful American
students of Kierkegaard of his generation, Holmer perceived early
on Wittgenstein's importance for theology, and employed both
thinkers to inspire his own fresh consideration of perennial issues
in philosophical theology: understanding, belief, faith, the
emotions, and the importance of the virtues. While best known for
his essays in 'The Grammar of Faith' (1978), Holmer penned numerous
other interesting and original essays, some published but many
unpublished, which circulated widely in typescript during his
tenure at Yale. Following his death, the Holmer family in 2005
donated his papers to the Yale Divinity School Library; in
reviewing Holmer's papers, the editors have chosen a selection of
his most seminal essays, beyond those in The Grammar of Faith,
demonstrating the breadth and range of his contributions. In this,
the second volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers, the editors present
pieces that illuminate four significant areas of Holmer's
contributions: essays on Kierkegaard; essays on Wittgenstein;
Theology, Understanding, and Faith; and Emotions, Passions, and
Virtues. Taken together, these essays invite in-depth exploration
of the thought of this important American philosophical theologian.
This is the second volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers, which
includes also volume 1, 'On Kierkegaard and the Truth', and volume
3, 'Communicating the Faith Indirectly: Selected Sermons,
Addresses, and Prayers'.
Exploring Kierkegaard's complex use of the Bible, the essays in
this volume use source-critical research and tools ranging from
literary criticism to theology and biblical studies, to situate
Kierkegaard's appropriation of the biblical material in his
cultural and intellectual context. The contributors seek to
identify the possible sources that may have influenced
Kierkegaard's understanding and employment of Scripture, and to
describe the debates about the Bible that may have shaped, perhaps
indirectly, his attitudes toward Scripture. They also pay close
attention to Kierkegaard's actual hermeneutic practice, analyzing
the implicit interpretive moves that he makes as well as his more
explicit statements about the significance of various biblical
passages. This close reading of Kierkegaard's texts elucidates the
unique and sometimes odd features of his frequent appeals to
Scripture. This volume in the series devotes one tome to the Old
Testament and a second tome to the New Testament. Tome I considers
the canonically disputed literature of the Apocrypha. Although
Kierkegaard certainly cited the Old Testament much less frequently
than he did the New, passages and themes from the Old Testament do
occupy a position of startling importance in his writings. Old
Testament characters such as Abraham and Job often play crucial and
even decisive roles in his texts. Snatches of Old Testament wisdom
figure prominently in his edifying literature. The vocabulary and
cadences of the Psalms saturate his expression of the range of
human passions from joy to despair. The essays in this first tome
seek to elucidate the crucial rhetorical uses to which he put key
passages from the Old Testament, the sources that influenced him to
do this, and his reasons for doing so.
Exploring Kierkegaard's complex use of the Bible, the essays in
this volume use source-critical research and tools ranging from
literary criticism to theology and biblical studies, to situate
Kierkegaard's appropriation of the biblical material in his
cultural and intellectual context. The contributors seek to
identify the possible sources that may have influenced
Kierkegaard's understanding and employment of Scripture, and to
describe the debates about the Bible that may have shaped, perhaps
indirectly, his attitudes toward Scripture. They also pay close
attention to Kierkegaard's actual hermeneutic practice, analyzing
the implicit interpretive moves that he makes as well as his more
explicit statements about the significance of various biblical
passages. This close reading of Kierkegaard's texts elucidates the
unique and sometimes odd features of his frequent appeals to
Scripture. This volume in the series devotes one tome to the Old
Testament and a second tome to the New Testament. As with the Old
Testament, Kierkegaard was aware of new developments in New
Testament scholarship, and troubled by them. Because these
scholarly projects generated alternative understandings of the
significance of Jesus, they impinged directly on his own work. It
was crucial for Kierkegaard that Jesus is presented as both the
enactment of God's reconciliation with humanity and as the
prototype for humanity to emulate. Consequently, Kierkegaard had to
struggle with the proper way to explicate persuasively the
significance of Jesus in a situation of decreasing academic
consensus about Jesus. He also had to contend with contested
interpretations of James and Paul, two biblical authors vital for
his work. As a result, Kierkegaard ruminated about the proper way
to appropriate the New Testament and used material from it
carefully and deliberately. The authors in the present New
Testament tome seek to clarify different dimensions of
Kierkegaard's interpretive theory and practice as he sought to
avoid the twin pitfalls of academic skepticism and passionless
biblical traditionalism.
In his teaching and his writing, Paul L. Holmer (1916-2004),
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota (1946-1960)
and Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale
Divinity School (1960-1987), not only made important contributions
to recent American theology, but was also much in demand as a
public speaker and preacher. Following his death, the Holmer family
in 2005 donated his papers to the Yale Divinity School Library. In
this, the third volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers: 'Communicating
the Faith Indirectly', the reader will see Holmer's deep concern
with the problems and possibilities of the sermon, liturgy,
ministry, and spirituality. Inspired by Soren Kierkegaard's
reflections on "indirect communication", and by Ludwig
Wittgenstein, Holmer not only reveals his strenuous reflection on
the sermon, but also gives concrete examples of his own efforts to
communicate, enabling his hearers and readers to "make sense" of
their lives. In the first part of this volume, Holmer reflects upon
Kierkegaard's "indirect communication", a communication not of
knowledge but of human capacity. In other pieces Holmer turns to
liturgy, ministry, and spirituality. In the second part of this
volume, the reader sees Holmer's own challenging, uncompromising
practice of religious and Christian communication, in a selection
of his sermons, addresses, and prayers. For anyone concerned with
sermons, liturgy, spirituality, and the challenges of ministry,
Holmer's essays and addresses will prove indispensable. This is the
third volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers, which includes also
volume 1, 'On Kierkegaard and the Truth', and volume 2, 'Thinking
the Faith with Passion: Selected Essays'.
Paul L. Holmer (1916-2004) was one of the most significant American
students of Kierkegaard of his generation. Although written in the
1950s and 1960s, Holmer's theological and philosophical engagement
with Kierkegaard challenges much contemporary scholarly discussion.
Unlike many, Holmer refuses reductionist readings that tie
Kierkegaard to any particular "school." He likewise criticizes
biographical readings of Kierkegaard, much in vogue recently,
seeing Kierkegaard rather as an indirect communicator aiming at his
reader's own ethical and religious capacities. Holmer also rejects
popular existentialist readings of Kierkegaard, seeing him as an
analyzer of concepts, while at the same time denying that he is a
"crypto-analyst." In his important reading of Kierkegaard on
"truth," Holmer pits Kierkegaard against those who see "truth"
empirically, idealistically, or relativistically. His carefully
textured account of Kierkegaard's conceptual grammar of "truth" in
ethical and religious contexts addresses immediately current
discussions of truth, meaning, reference, and realism versus
antirealism, relativism, and hermeneutics. It will be of great
interest to all interested in Kierkegaard and his importance for
contemporary theology and philosophy.
A new translation and critical commentary of a classic reformation
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The Heidelberg Catechism (Paperback)
John Williamson Nevin, John Williams Proudfit; Edited by Lee C Barrett
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Synopsis: In his teaching and his writing, Paul L. Holmer
(1916-2004), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota
(1946-1960) and Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at
Yale Divinity School (1960-1987), made many important contributions
to recent American theology. One of the most insightful American
students of Kierkegaard of his generation, Holmer perceived early
on Wittgenstein's importance for theology, and employed both
thinkers to inspire his own fresh consideration of perennial issues
in philosophical theology: understanding, belief, faith, the
emotions, and the importance of the virtues. While best known for
his essays in The Grammar of Faith (1978), Holmer penned numerous
other interesting and original essays, some published but many
unpublished, which circulated widely in typescript during his
tenure at Yale. Following his death, the Holmer family in 2005
donated his papers to the Yale Divinity School Library; in
reviewing Holmer's papers, the editors have chosen a selection of
his most seminal essays, beyond those in The Grammar of Faith,
demonstrating the breadth and range of his contributions. In this,
the second volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers, the editors present
pieces that illuminate four significant areas of Holmer's
contributions: essays on Kierkegaard; essays on Wittgenstein;
Theology, Understanding, and Faith; and Emotions, Passions, and
Virtues. Taken together, these essays invite in-depth exploration
of the thought of this important American philosophical theologian.
This is the second volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers, which
includes also volume 1, On Kierkegaard and Truth: Selected Essays,
and volume 3, Communicating the Faith Indirectly: Selected Sermons,
Addresses, and Prayers. Endorsement: "Disciplined by a careful,
undogmatic appropriation of Wittgenstein's later achievements, Paul
Holmer may just be the best balanced and most plainspoken expositor
of Kierkegaard's ethical-religious thought in the English language
to date. Holmer was an outstanding teacher, and this collection is
a treasure for those privileged to hear his lectures and for those
who did not." -Robert L. Perkins Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Stetson University, DeLand, Florida "This collection of previously
published and unpublished essays by Paul L. Holmer on a wide range
of topics demonstrates his incisive thought and writing on some of
the perplexing 'knots of understanding' in philosophy and theology,
which he sought to untie with exceptional acuity and conceptual
clarity by way of Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and his own pioneering
efforts in the rehabilitation of virtue ethics in our time."
-Sylvia Walsh Scholar in Residence Stetson University Editor
Biography: David J. Gouwens is Professor of Theology at Brite
Divinity School. He is the author of Kierkegaard's Dialectic of the
Imagination (1989) and Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker (1996). Lee
C. Barrett III is Stager Professor of Theology at Lancaster
Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Heidelberg Catechism
(2007), Foundations of Modern Theology: Kierkegaard (2009), and
co-editor of Kierkegaard and the Bible (2010).
Synopsis: Paul L. Holmer (1916-2004) was Professor of Philosophy at
the University of Minnesota (1946-1960) and Noah Porter Professor
of Philosophical Theology at Yale Divinity School (1960-1987).
Among his many acomplishments, Holmer was one of the most
significant American students of Kierkegaard of his generation.
Although written in the 1950s and 1960s, Holmer's theological and
philosophical engagement with Kierkegaard challenges much in the
contemporary scholarly discussions of this important thinker.
Unlike many, Holmer refuses reductionist readings that tie
Kierkegaard to any particular "school." He likewise criticizes
biographical readings of Kierkegaard, much in vogue recently,
seeing Kierkegaard rather as an indirect communicator aiming at his
reader's own ethical and religious capacities. Holmer also rejects
popular existentialist readings of Kierkegaard, seeing him as an
analyzer of concepts, while at the same time denying that he is a
"crypto-analyst." Holmer criticizes the attempt to construe
Kierkegaard as a didactic religious thinker, appreciating
Kierkegaard's "cool" descriptive objectivity and his ironic and
stylistic virtuosity. In his important reading of Kierkegaard on
"truth," Holmer pits Kierkegaard against those who see "truth"
empirically, idealistically, or relativistically. Holmer's
carefully textured account of Kierkegaard's conceptual grammar of
"truth" in ethical and religious contexts, fifty years after it was
penned, addresses immediately current discussions of truth,
meaning, reference, and realism versus antirealism, relativism, and
hermeneutics. It will be of great interest to all interested in
Kierkegaard and his importance for contemporary theology and
philosophy. This is the first volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers,
which includes also volume 2, Thinking the Faith with Passion:
Selected Essays, and volume 3, Communicating the Faith Indirectly:
Selected Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers. Endorsements: "Paul L.
Holmer was and is still a largely unheralded Kierkegaard scholar
and analytic philosopher. This volume and the collected works
series it introduces should do a lot to correct that oversight in
both fields. We owe the editors, both of whom were Holmer's
students, a great deal of thanks for their labor of love." -Robert
L. Perkins Stetson University "Paul Holmer was one of the most
interesting and original religious thinkers in
mid-twentieth-century America, yet he is little known today. So
enter back slash through O]ren Kierkegaard was his central
scholarly interest and his unusual and provocative reading of
Kierkegaard is important." -David Kelsey Yale Divinity School
"Professor Paul L. Holmer was the doyen of Kierkegaard studies for
much of the later part of the twentieth century. His jargon-free
writings are crisp, clear, epiphanic, and always in earnest . . ."
-Gordon Marino St. Olaf College Editor Biographies: David J.
Gouwens is Professor of Theology at Brite Divinity School. He is
the author of Kierkegaard's Dialectic of the Imagination (1989) and
Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker (1996). Lee C. Barrett III is
Stager Professor of Theology at Lancaster Theological Seminary. He
is the author of The Heidelberg Catechism (2007), Foundations of
Modern Theology: Kierkegaard (2009), and co-editor of Kierkegaard
and the Bible (2010).
"Abingdon Pillars of Theology" is a series for the college and
seminary classroom designed to help students grasp the basic and
necessary facts, influence, and significance of major theologians.
Written by noted scholars, these books will outline the context,
methodology, organizing principles, primary contributions, and key
writings of people who have shaped theology as we know it
today.Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) "foresaw, the power of mass
culture to numb the human spirit has only waxed in strength and
virulence. The prostitution of religion to legitimate
self-aggrandizing ideologies has become a veritable global
industry. The reduction of neighbor-love to the most minimal
standards of decent behavior has devolved to the point where
slightly altruistic celebrities are heralded as Christ-like saints.
The deep yearnings of the human heart are being suffocated by
trivial amusements, technological toys, and the manipulation of the
psyche. Now, perhaps more than ever, Christianity needs an
aggravating Socrates to disturb its complicity with a culture of
individual self-gratification and corporate self-deification."
"from the book
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Lee C. Barrett, III is Mary B. and Hanry P. Stager Chair in
Theology, Professor of Systematic Theology at Lancaster Theological
Seminary in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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In this book -- the first volume in the Kierkegaard as a Christian
Thinker series -- Lee Barrett offers a novel comparative
interpretation of early church father Augustine and
nineteenth-century philosopher-theologian Soren Kierkegaard. Though
these two intellectual giants have been paired by historians of
Western culture, the exact nature of their similarities and
differences has never before been probed in detail. Barrett
demonstrates that on many essential theological levels Augustine
and Kierkegaard were more convergent than divergent. Most
significantly, their parallels point to a distinctive understanding
of the Christian life as a passion for self-giving love.
Approaching Kierkegaard through the lens of Augustine, Barrett
argues, enables the theme of desire for fulfillment in God to be
seen as much more central to Kierkegaard's thought than previously
imagined.
Lee Barrett discusses the uniqueness and challenges of
Kierkegaard's approach to theology. He examines Kierkegaard's
explicit reflections on the appropriate way to engage in the
theological task, as well as shows how the theme of God's
"otherness" is held in dialectical tension with the theme of God's
intimate love. Barrett discusses Kierkegaard's key reflections of
the nature and purpose of human life as a paradoxical journey
toward self-fulfilment through a self-emptying in which the self
more intensively reflects God's self-giving love. He examines the
works that describe sin as both a condition in which the individual
is trapped and as a culpable act for which the individual must
assume responsibility. Barrett explores Kierkegaard's thoughts on
sin, his descriptions of Jesus Christ as the enactment in time of
God's eternal self-giving compassion, his view of faith and his
critique of culturally established Christianity as a form of fatal
religious anaesthesia. This volume includes the following
pedagogical features: - Each chapter contains its own introduction,
explanatory notes, discussion questions and recommendation for
further reading in both the primary and secondary literature -
Includes links to Kierkegaardian texts provided by the Kierkegaard
Research Center of the University of Copenhagen, the Howard and
Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library of St Olaf College, as well as the
resources of the Soren Kierkegaard Society
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