Augustine and Kierkegaard.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (339 pages)
- Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation Series .
- Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation Series .
Cover -- Augustine and Kierkegaard -- Augustine and Kierkegaard -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- Part I -- THE DIVINE/HUMAN RELATIONSHIP -- Chapter 1 -- Justification within the Limits of Anthropology Alone -- Augustine -- An Excursus On -- Kierkegaard -- An Excursus On -- The Sickness Unto Death -- Augustine And Kierkegaard -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- The Image of God in Augustine and Kierkegaard -- Augustine -- Kierkegaard -- Conclusion: An Augustinian Legacy? -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Evil -- Evil: Saint Augustine And Early Augustinianism -- The Privation Thesis -- The Agency Thesis -- The Persistence Thesis -- Two Concerns For Kierkegaard On The Augustinian Agency Thesis -- The Challenge Of Ethical Rigorism -- Avoiding Pelagianism -- The Persistence Thesis Reconsidered -- Adam's Co-extensional Identity -- The Qualitative Leap -- Spirit, Ignorance, And Anxiety -- The Nature Of Evil: Privation And Despair -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- The Spiritual Trial of Divine Seduction -- Temptation In A Culture Of Seduction -- Confessing Temptation -- The Confessions And Temptations Of Providence -- Confessing Seduction -- The Spiritual Trial Of Divine Seduction -- Conclusion: The Spiritual Trial Of The Confessing Self -- Notes -- Part II -- TIME -- Chapter 5 -- Kierkegaard and Augustine on Time -- The Standard View Of Augustine And Kierkegaard's Approaches To Time -- Augustine's Approach To Time And Kierkegaard's Corrective -- Comparing Augustine And Kierkegaard's Accounts -- Edifying Implications Of Augustine And Kierkegaard's Approaches To Time -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- Eternal Becoming and Temporal Understanding -- Augustine: Faith Seeking Understanding -- Kierkegaard: Faith Surrendering Understanding -- Conclusion: A Restlessness Better Than Rest -- Notes -- Part III. HUMANS AND THE FINITE, MATERIAL WORLD -- Chapter 7 -- Sacrament and Self-Construction -- Delimiting A Conversation -- Augustine, Kierkegaard, And Sacramental Teleology -- Selfhood-formation In The -- Augustine's Love Takes A Journey -- The Personal Narrative -- The Cosmic Narrative -- The Heart Of It All -- Kierkegaard's Stages Of Desire -- Aesthetic Desires, Ethical Desires, Religious Desires -- Conclusion: Receiving The World As A Gift -- Notes -- Chapter 8 -- Beauty Matters -- We Are Lovers: The Relational Self -- Sensual Beauty -- Relating To Sensuous Beauty -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9 -- You Must Change Your Life -- Notes -- Part IV -- HOME AND HOMELESSNESS -- Chapter 10 -- Hidden Inwardness -- The Margins Of Solitude -- The Question Of The Sufferer -- Contemporaneousness And Silence -- The Truth That Changes -- Note -- Chapter 11 -- Home, Love, and the Self -- Notes -- Chapter 12 -- Existence as Pilgrimage -- Kierkegaard's Own Pilgrimage -- Augustine And The Pilgrimage Theme -- The Theme Of Pilgrimage In Kierkegaard's Writings -- Pilgrimage And 'becoming' -- Unique And Different Perspectives On Pilgrimage -- Notes -- Part V -- HUMAN COMMUNITIES AND ETHICS -- Chapter 13 -- Augustine and Kierkegaard on the Church -- The Convergences Of Augustine And Kierkegaard -- Augustine And Kierkegaard's Ecclesial Divergence -- Augustine And The Church As Nurturing Mother -- Kierkegaard And The Church As Socratic Gadfly -- Conclusion: Divergent Paths To Love -- Notes -- Chapter 14 -- In Praise of Humility -- And Its Kierkegaard -- Macintyre's Augustine -- Kierkegaard And Macintyre's Augustine -- What Is Humility? -- Why Humility Matters? -- Notes -- Chapter 15 -- Augustine and Kierkegaard on Martyrdom and "Polite Persecution" -- Augustine's Views On Martyrdom And Persecution -- Kierkegaard's Views On Martyrdom And Persecution. Augustine And Kierkegaard On Polite Persecution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources: Augustine -- Primary Sources: Kierkegaard -- Secondary Works -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
This anthology includes cutting edge scholars who bring Augustine into dialogue with Soren Kierkegaard on topics such as exile and pilgrimage, time and restlessness, inwardness and the church, as well as suffering, evil, and humility. The contrasts and surprising connections between these prominent thinkers are highlighted.