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Kierkegaard on the Atonement: The Complementarity of Salvation as a Gift and Salvation as a Task

  • Lee C. Barrett
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 24. Oktober 2013
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Abstract

Kierkegaard’s complex use of atonement language has generated interpretive disputes about his understanding of that doctrine. The perplexity is due to the fact that Kierkegaard employed four different atonement motifs, all rooted in the history of the Christian tradition and all circulating in his contemporary Denmark. Two of these emphasized the objectivity of the atonement, while two of them described it as a phenomenon in the subjectivity of the believer. The unique thing about Kierkegaard’s use of all of these themes was his insistence that they only acquired significance when they were situated in the appropriate forms of pathos, which his literature tried to evoke. Consequently, the integration of these seemingly divergent views of the atonement would occur not in a theological system, but in the harmonization of specific passions in the life of an individual.

Published Online: 2013-10-24
Published in Print: 2013-10

© 2013 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Masthead
  2. Preface
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Section 1: Kierkegaard’s Concepts, Motifs and Figures
  5. Kierkegaard on the Atonement: The Complementarity of Salvation as a Gift and Salvation as a Task
  6. Recognition and Its Discontents: Johannes de Silentio and the Preacher
  7. In Defense of a Straightforward Reading of Fear and Trembling
  8. Verführung nach Kierkegaard. Ein soziologischer Versuch
  9. Johannes Climacus on Coming into Existence: The Problem of Modality in Kierkegaard’s Fragments and Postscript
  10. Kierkegaard’s Passion for Equality
  11. The Abyss of Demonic Boredom: An Analysis of the Dialectic of Freedom and Facticity in Kierkegaard’s Early Works
  12. Section 2: Love and Passion
  13. Selfless Passion: Kierkegaard on True Love
  14. Kierkegaard, Metaphysics, and Love
  15. Self-Love and Neighbor-Love in Kierkegaard’s Ethics
  16. Love as a Relation to Truth: Envisioning the Person in Works of Love
  17. “Love” Among the Post-Socratics
  18. Love, Death, and the Limits of Singularity
  19. Kierkegaard and the Sheer Phenomenon of Love
  20. Love’s Hidden Laugh: On Jest, Earnestness, and Socratic Indirection in Kierkegaard’s “Praising Love”
  21. Passion as a Will to Existence in Kierkegaard
  22. Section 3: Kierkegaard in Dialogue
  23. Die philosophische Verflüchtigung des Glaubensbegriffs. Kierkegaards Auseinandersetzung mit Immanuel Hermann Fichte
  24. Kierkegaard and the Traditions of the Comic in Philosophy
  25. Why a Danish Golden Age? Structural Holes in 19th Century Copenhagen
  26. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche on Living by a Guiding Passion
  27. The Self as a Center of Ethical Gravity: A Constructive Dialogue Between Søren Kierkegaard and George Herbert Mead
  28. Section 4: Current Debates and Controversies
  29. The Soul of a Philosopher: Reply to Turnbull
  30. Abbreviations
  31. List of Contributors
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