Kierkegaard and Mysticism by Becker-Lindenthal, Hjördis;

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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.

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Kierkegaard and Mysticism 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.

The three sections focus on:

• reception history, considering the mystical writers who, even when mediated through secondary sources, were most formative for Kierkegaard’s thought;


• mystical concepts such as silence, unio mystica and the relation of the contemplative and active life in various religious traditions;


• Kierkegaard’s relevance for twentieth-century mystical writers and contemporary spirituality.

Whereas previous scholarship has approached Kierkegaard’s relation to mysticism mainly under a negative paradigm, this volume contributes to a greater understanding of the mystical dimensions of his thought. It will be of interest not only to Kierkegaard scholars but also to theologians and philosophers working on mysticism and intellectual history.

Tartalomjegyzék:

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.