For Self-examination and Judge for Yourself!

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Robert L. Perkins
Mercer University Press, 2002 - Philosophy - 374 pages

The International Kierkegaard Commentary-For the first time in English the world community of scholars systematically assembled and presented the results of recent research in the vast literature of Søren Kierkegaard. Based on the definitive English edition of Kierkegaard's works by Princeton University Press, this series of commentaries addresses all the published texts of the influential Danish philosopher and theologian.

This is volume 21 in a series of commentaries based upon the definitive translations of Kierkegaard's writings published by Princeton University Press, 1980ff.


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Contents

Authorial Voices and the Limits of Communication in Kierkegaards Signed Literature A Comparison of Works of Love to For SelfExamination and J...
13
Will the Real Martin Luther Please Stand Up Kierkegaards View of Luther versus the Evolving Perceptions of the Tradition
37
Faith Works and the Uses of the Law Kierkegaards Appropriation of Lutheran Doctrine
77
Cheap Grace and the Cost of Discipleship in Kierkegaards For SelfExamination
111
Kierkegaard Barth and Bonhoeffer Conceptions of the Relation between Grace and Works
143
Dying to the World and SelfDenial in Kierkegaards Religious Thought
169
The Emergence of the Holy Spirit in Kierkegaards Thought Critical Theological Developments in For SelfExamination and Judge for Yourself
199
Silence Domesticity and Joy The Spiritual Life of Women in Kierkegaards For SelfExamination
223
The Letter from the Lover Kierkegaard on the Bible and Belief
287
A Star in a Cross Getting the Dialectic Right
315
The Mirror
335
Contributors
363
Advisory Board
364
Previous Volume Consultants
365
Index
367
Copyright

Whence the Authority of Gods Word?
259

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About the author (2002)

Robert L. Perkins+ (Ph.D., Indiana University), Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Professor of Philosophy at Stetson University, was an international authority on the Danish Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and series editor of the 24-volume International Kierkegaard Commentary. Prior to his long career at Stetson, Bob was founder and department chair (for 16 years) of the Philosophy Department at the University of South Alabama. His research interests in Kierkegaard provoked his studies in ethics, contemporary philosophy, and ancient philosophy.

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