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Kierkegaard and the Self Before God: Anatomy of the Abyss

Kierkegaard and the Self Before God: Anatomy of the Abyss

Podmore, Simon D.

Paperback

Series: Philosophy of Religion

PhilosophyReligion General

ISBN10: 0253222826
ISBN13: 9780253222824
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Feb 1 2011
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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