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This book
brings together scholars who show that reading Søren Kierkegaard from the perspective of mysticism not only sheds new light on the Dane's thought but also offers a fresh approach to mysticism as such, considering its relevance for existential questions, ethics, inter-faith dialogues, and socio-political criticism.
List of contents
Foreword: The Master of Irony and the Mystical Canon Kierkegaard and Mysticism?
Introduction
Part 1: Kierkegaard and the Mystical Tradition 1. Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Kenotic Existence 2. Agency and Contemplation: Neptic Themes in Kierkegaard 3.
Unio Mystica and the Infinite Difference Between God and Human Being: Kierkegaard and Tauler 4. Justification and Sanctification: Luther, Arndt, and Kierkegaard's Inheritance of
Theologia Deutsch 5.
Purity of Heart and the Pure Love of God: Kierkegaard and Fénelon 6. Modern Devotion: Thomas à Kempis, Søren Kierkegaard, and the Question of the
Unio Mystica 7. "Upbuilding Religious Popular-Philosophy": Martensen's Eckhart and Kierkegaard's Defense of Mysticism
Part 2: Approaching Mysticism With Kierkegaard 8. The Mystical Horizon: The Temptation of Mysticism and the Transfiguration of
Unio Mystica 9. Re-thinking Spirituality with Kierkegaard: the First Schleswig War and the Turn to
Imitatio Christi 10. Contemplative Withdrawal and Ethical Life: A Kierkegaardian Critique 11. Muslim Sufism and Kierkegaard's Mysticism: Returning to the Finite World 12. Kierkegaard and the Three Characteristics of Existence in Buddhism
Part 3: Mysticism After Kierkegaard 13. Contemporaneity with Christ: Cornelio Fabro's Kierkegaardian Approach to the Mystical Writings of St. Gemma Galgani 14. Antigone Again? Reading Kierkegaard and Simone Weil 15. Against the Hierarchization of Religion and Ethics: The Opposition of Hasidism and Kierkegaard in Martin Buber 16. The Stranger Within: Kierkegaard, Mysticism, and the Unconscious.
About the author
Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK.
