Kierkegaard and the Self Before God
by Podmore, Simon D.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-02-01
Publisher(s): Indiana Univ Pr
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Summary
Simon D. Podmore claims that becoming a self before God is both a divine gift and an anxious obligation. Before we can know God, or ourselves, we must come to a moment of recognition. How this comes to be as well as the terms of such acknowledgment are worked out in Podmore's powerful new reading of Kierkegaard. As he gives full consideration to Kierkegaard's writings, Podmore explores themes such as despair, anxiety, melancholy, and spiritual trial, and how they are broken by the triumph of faith, forgiveness, and the love of God. He confronts the abyss between the self and the divine in order to understand how we can come to know ourselves in relation to a God who is apparently so wholly Other.
Author Biography
Simon D. Podmore is Gordon Milburn Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford. He is the Secretary of The Sren Kierkegaard Society of the United Kingdom.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxv |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xxvii |
| Introduction: Anatomy of the Abyss | p. 1 |
| The Inner Abyss | p. 10 |
| The Abyss of Melancholy | p. 50 |
| The Melancholy Theophany | p. 68 |
| The Allegory of Yisra'el | p. 90 |
| The Anatomy of Spiritual Trial | p. 120 |
| The Gaze of the Abyss | p. 151 |
| Conclusions: The (Im)possible and the (Un)forgivable | p. 181 |
| Notes | p. 193 |
| Bibliography | p. 225 |
| Index | p. 241 |
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