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Anti-Climacus’ Inverted Dialectic of Divine Grace and Human Activity

  • Elizabeth Li
Published/Copyright: July 26, 2018
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Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook
From the journal Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook Volume 23 Issue 1

Abstract

This article will show that the relationship between divine grace and human activity in the Anti-Climacus works should be understood as an inverted dialectic. Although Anti-Climacus communicates the strictness of Christianity and the importance of undertaking the Christian task, I will argue that the Anti-Climacus works are ultimately aimed at deepening the reader’s understanding of grace. By exploring Anti-Climacus’ accounts of human imagination and will in coming to faith and in the task of following Christ, it becomes clear that human activity ultimately reveals human beings’ limitations and their dependence on grace.

Online erschienen: 2018-07-26

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Articles in the same Issue

  1. Front matter
  2. Title pages
  3. Preface
  4. Contents
  5. Articles
  6. Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Problems and Perspectives
  7. There is No Teleological Suspension of the Ethical: Kierkegaard’s Logic Against Religious Justification and Moral Exceptionalism
  8. Kierkegaard on Variation and Thought Experiment
  9. Subjectivity and Ambiguity: Anxiety and Love in Kierkegaard
  10. Faith and Knowledge: Remarks Inspired by Søren Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments
  11. Anti-Climacus’ Inverted Dialectic of Divine Grace and Human Activity
  12. Recognition, Self-Recognition, and God: An Interpretation of The Sickness unto Death as an Existential Theory of Self-Recognition
  13. A Portrait of Spiritlessness in the Age of Leveling
  14. The Reality of Love: An Affirmative Vision of Christianity Based on Kierkegaard’s Interpretation of the Maxim: Love is the Fulfilling of the Law
  15. Section 2: Source–work Studies
  16. Kierkegaard and the Danish Golden Age: The Strengths and Limits of Source-Work Research
  17. From Enthusiasm to Irony: Kierkegaard’s Reception of Norse Mythology and Literature
  18. Die Ausnahme bei Christian Garve und Søren Kierkegaard
  19. Section 3: Kierkegaard Reception
  20. Erkenntnis und Liebe. Zur Nähe und Ferne zwischen Heinrich Barths und Søren Kierkegaards Verständnis von Gemeinschaft
  21. Communication of Existence: Søren Kierkegaard and Gabriel Marcel
  22. Pseudonymous Voices Talking Back: Kierkegaard’s Plural Perspectives and a Wittgensteinian Point of View
  23. Section 4: Primary Texts in Translation
  24. Andreas Frederik Beck’s Review of Kierkegaard’s On the Concept of Irony
  25. Back matter
  26. Abbreviations
  27. List of Contributors
https://doi.org/10.1515/kierke-2018-0006

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Front matter
  2. Title pages
  3. Preface
  4. Contents
  5. Articles
  6. Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Problems and Perspectives
  7. There is No Teleological Suspension of the Ethical: Kierkegaard’s Logic Against Religious Justification and Moral Exceptionalism
  8. Kierkegaard on Variation and Thought Experiment
  9. Subjectivity and Ambiguity: Anxiety and Love in Kierkegaard
  10. Faith and Knowledge: Remarks Inspired by Søren Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments
  11. Anti-Climacus’ Inverted Dialectic of Divine Grace and Human Activity
  12. Recognition, Self-Recognition, and God: An Interpretation of The Sickness unto Death as an Existential Theory of Self-Recognition
  13. A Portrait of Spiritlessness in the Age of Leveling
  14. The Reality of Love: An Affirmative Vision of Christianity Based on Kierkegaard’s Interpretation of the Maxim: Love is the Fulfilling of the Law
  15. Section 2: Source–work Studies
  16. Kierkegaard and the Danish Golden Age: The Strengths and Limits of Source-Work Research
  17. From Enthusiasm to Irony: Kierkegaard’s Reception of Norse Mythology and Literature
  18. Die Ausnahme bei Christian Garve und Søren Kierkegaard
  19. Section 3: Kierkegaard Reception
  20. Erkenntnis und Liebe. Zur Nähe und Ferne zwischen Heinrich Barths und Søren Kierkegaards Verständnis von Gemeinschaft
  21. Communication of Existence: Søren Kierkegaard and Gabriel Marcel
  22. Pseudonymous Voices Talking Back: Kierkegaard’s Plural Perspectives and a Wittgensteinian Point of View
  23. Section 4: Primary Texts in Translation
  24. Andreas Frederik Beck’s Review of Kierkegaard’s On the Concept of Irony
  25. Back matter
  26. Abbreviations
  27. List of Contributors
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