Kierkegaard and Religion - Personality, Character, and Virtue

Focusing on the concepts of personality, character, and virtue, this work examines what it means to exist religiously for Kierkegaard.

List of contents

1. The constituents of personality; 2. Portraits of character; 3. Character and virtue; 4. Existence as a time of testing; 5. The content and formation of Christian character; 6. Progress and sanctification in the Christian life.

About the author

Sylvia Walsh is the author of Kierkegaard: Thinking Christianly in an Existential Mode (2009); Living Christianly: Kierkegaard's Dialectic of Christian Existence (2005); Living Poetically: Kierkegaard's Existential Aesthetics (1994); translator of Kierkegaard's Discourses at the Communion on Fridays (2011) and Fear and Trembling (Cambridge, 2006); and co-editor of Feminist Interpretations of Kierkegaard (1997). She directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers on Kierkegaard and served as president of the Søren Kierkegaard Society, co-chair of the Kierkegaard, Religion and Culture Group in the American Academy of Religion (AAR), and advisory board member of International Kierkegaard Commentary.

Summary

Intended for general readers as well as Kierkegaard specialists, this work focuses on the concepts of personality, character, and virtue in Kierkegaard's thought, examining them from the standpoint of what it means to exist religiously as a whole, authentic self or human being in relation to God and other persons.

Product details

• Authors: Sylvia Walsh, Sylvia (Emory University Walsh, Sylvia (Stetson University Walsh, Walsh Sylvia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781316632284
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63228-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: The Cambridge RF and Microwave Engineering Series; Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society; Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Denmark, RELIGION / Philosophy, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion