Kierkegaard and the Patristic and Medieval Traditions
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Now available from Ashgate Publishing… Kierkegaard and the Patristic and Medieval Traditions Edited by Jon Stewart, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources: Volume 4 This volume features articles which employ source-work research to of Origen of Alexandria, Paul Martens; Pelagius: Kierkegaard’s use of trace Kierkegaard’s understanding and use of authors from the Patristic Pelagius and Pelagianism, Rob Puchniak; Tertullian: the teacher of the and Medieval traditions. It covers an extraordinarily long period of credo quia absurdum, Pierre Bühler. PART II THE MEDIEVAL TRADITION: time from Cyprian and Tertullian in the second century to Thomas Abelard: Kierkegaard’s reflections on the unhappy love of a scholastic à Kempis in the fifteenth. Despite its heterogeneity and diversity in dialectician, István Czakó; Anselm of Canterbury: the ambivalent many aspects, this volume has a clear point of commonality in all its legacy of faith seeking understanding, Lee C. Barrett; Thomas featured sources: Christianity. 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 Contents: Preface; PART I THE PATRISTIC TRADITION: Athanasius: the landscape of sin and despair, Thomas Miles; Meister Eckhart: Kierkegaard’s curious comment, Robert Puchniak; Augustine: the patriarch of German speculation who was Lebemeister; Meister Kierkegaard’s tempered admiration of Augustine, Robert Puchniak; Eckhart’s silent way into Kierkegaard’s corpus, Peter Šajda; Petrarch: Bernard of Clairvaux: Kierkegaard’s reception of the last of the Kierkegaard’s few and one-sided references to a like-minded thinker, Fathers, Jack Mulder Jr; Chrysostom: between the hermitage and Karl Verstrynge; Tauler: a teacher in spiritual dietethics: Kiekegaard’s the city, Leo Stan; Cyprian of Carthage: Kierkegaard, Cyprian, and reception of Johannes Tauler, Peter Šajda; Thomas à Kempis: Devotio the ‘urgent needs of the times’, Jack Mulder Jr; Gregory of Nyssa: Moderna and Kierkegaard’s critique of ‘bourgeois-philistinism, Joel locating the Cappadocian fathers in Kierkegaard’s church-historical D.S. Rasmussen; Troubadour poetry: the young Kierkegaard’s study narrative, Joseph Ballan; Irenaeus: on law, gospel and the grace of on troubadours – ‘with respect to the concept of the romantic’, Tonny death, Paul Martens; Origen: Kierkegaard’s equivocal appropriation Aagaard Olesen; Indexes Sample pages for published titles are available to view online at: www.ashgate.com To order, please visit: www.ashgate.com June 2008 All online orders receive a discount 350 pages Hardback Alternatively, contact our distributor: 978-0-7546-6391-1 Bookpoint Ltd, Ashgate Publishing Direct Sales, £60.00 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK Tel: +44 (0)1235 827730 Fax: +44 (0)1235 400454 Email: [email protected].