This multi-dimensional, richly textured work is the first volume of a three-part series sketching a "philosophy of the Christian life." The project is the culmination of a lifetime of wide-ranging scholarship and reflection.
George Pattison is 1640 Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow and a Visiting Professor at the University of Copenhagen. He has published extensively in modern theology, especially relating to Hegel and his nineteenth and twentieth- century interpreters and critics-notably Kierkegaard and Heidegger, and with a particular interest in Russian religious thought. His publications include Thinking about God in an Age of Technology (2005), God and Being (2011), Kierkegaard and the Quest for Unambiguous Life (2013), and Eternal God/Saving Time (2015). He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard (with John Lippitt; 2013) and The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought (with Nicholas Adam and Graham Ward; 2013).