Volume 4: Kierkegaard and the Patristic and Medieval Traditions

ISBN-13: 9780754663911 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 330 str.

Jon Stewart

Opis

Features articles which employ source-work research to trace Kierkegaard's understanding and use of authors from the Patristic and Medieval traditions. This volume covers a long period of time from Cyprian and Tertullian in the second century to Thomas a Kempis in the fifteenth.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface; Part I The Patristic Tradition: Athanasius: Kierkegaard's curious comment, Robert Puchniak; Augustine: Kierkegaard's tempered admiration of Augustine, Robert Puchniak; Bernard of Clairvaux: Kierkegaard's reception of the last of the Fathers, Jack Mulder Jr; Chrysostom: between the hermitage and the city, Leo Stan; Cyprian of Carthage: Kierkegaard, Cyprian, and the 'urgent needs of the times', Jack Mulder Jr; Gregory of Nyssa: locating the Cappadocian fathers in Kierkegaard's church-historical narrative, Joseph Ballan; Irenaeus: on law, gospel and the grace of death, Paul Martens; Origen: Kierkegaard's equivocal appropriation of Origen of Alexandria, Paul Martens; Pelagius: Kierkegaard's use of Pelagius and Pelagianism, Rob Puchniak; Tertullian: the teacher of the credo quia absurdum, Pierre Bühler. Part II The Medieval Tradition: Abelard: Kierkegaard's reflections on the unhappy love of a scholastic dialectician, István Czakó; Anselm of Canterbury: the ambivalent legacy of faith seeking understanding, Lee C. Barrett; Thomas Aquinas: Kierkegaard's view based on scattered and uncertain sources, Benjamin Olivares Bøgeskov; Boethius: Kierkegaard and The Consolation, Joseph Westfall; Dante: tours of Hell: mapping the landscape of sin and despair, Thomas Miles; Meister Eckhart: the patriarch of German speculation who was Lebemeister; Meister Eckhart's silent way into Kierkegaard's corpus, Peter Šajda; Petrarch: Kierkegaard's few and one-sided references to a like-minded thinker, Karl Verstrynge; Tauler: a teacher in spiritual dietethics: Kiekegaard's reception of Johannes Tauler, Peter Šajda; Thomas à Kempis: Devotio Moderna and Kierkegaard's critique of 'bourgeois-philistinism, Joel D.S. Rasmussen; Troubadour poetry: the young Kierkegaard's study on troubadours - 'with respect to the concept of the romantic', Tonny Aagaard Olesen; Indexes.

O autorze

Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.