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