Fortunate Fallibility - Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin

For more than 1,500 years, the claim that Adam's Fall might be considered 'fortunate' has been Christianity's most controversial and difficult idea. While keepers of the Easter vigil in the fifth century (and later John Milton) praised sin only as a backhanded witness to the ineffability of redemption, modern speculative theodicy came to understand all evil as comprehensible, historically productive, and therefore fortunate, while the romantic poets credited transgression with bolstering individual creativity and spirit.

List of contents

• Abbreviations


• Introduction: Fault and Fallibility


• Chapter 1: Figuring a Fortunate Fall


• Chapter 2: Felix Fragilitas in The Concept of Anxiety


• Chapter 3: Felix Fallibilitas in The Sickness unto Death


• Chapter 4: Felix Offensatio in Practice in Christianity


• Chapter 5: Felicitas: Between Cross and Resurrection


• Postscript: Christian Para/Orthodoxy: Toward a Postmodern Hamartiology

About the author

Assistant Professor of Religion, Augustana College

Summary

Jason Mahn traces the concept of the fortunate Fall through the later writings of Soren Kierkegaard, examining Kierkegaard's blunt critique of Idealism's justification of evil, as well as his playful deconstruction of romantic celebrations of sin.

Additional text

Mahns reading of Kierkegaard is both fresh and challenging, and there is a lot more material packed into 212 pages than one might expect.

Product details

• Authors: Jason A Mahn, Jason A. Mahn, Jason A. (Assistant Professor of Religion Mahn
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.07.2011
• EAN: 9780199790661
• ISBN: 978-0-19-979066-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion; AAR Reflection and Theory in t
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, Christian Churches & denominations, Christian Churches, denominations, groups, Philosophy of religion