Volume 4: Kierkegaard and the Patristic and Medieval Traditions
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De Incarnatione
Den Christelige Dogmatik
Die Christliche Lehre Von Der
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Frater Taciturnus
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Johannes Tauler
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Kierkegaard's Papirer
Kierkegaard's Reading
Kierkegaard's Reception
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Kierkegaard’s Journals
Kierkegaard’s Papirer
Kierkegaard’s Reading
Kierkegaard’s Reception
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medieval Christian thought analysis
medieval mysticism
monastic movement
Nicene Orthodoxy
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Niels Thulstrup
Niklaus Largier
Om Philosophiens Betydning
patristic scholarship
Peccatum Originale
Philipp Marheineke
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Scholastic Master
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Tauler's Sermons
Tauler’s Sermons
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Troubadour Poetry
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781032099637
- Weight: 640g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This volume features articles which employ source-work research to trace Kierkegaard's understanding and use of authors from the Patristic and Medieval traditions. It covers an extraordinarily long period of time from Cyprian and Tertullian in the second century to Thomas à Kempis in the fifteenth. Despite its heterogeneity and diversity in many aspects, this volume has a clear point of commonality in all its featured sources: Christianity. Kierkegaard's relation to the Patristic and Medieval traditions has been a rather neglected area of research in Kierkegaard studies. This is somewhat surprising given the fact that the young Kierkegaard learned about the Patristic authors during his studies at the University of Copenhagen and was clearly fascinated by many aspects of their writings and the conceptions of Christian religiosity found there. With regard to the medieval tradition, in addition to any number of theological issues, medieval mysticism, medieval art, the medieval church, troubadour poetry and the monastic movement were all themes that exercised Kierkegaard during different periods of his life. Although far from uncritical, he seems at times to idolize both the Patristic tradition and the Middle Ages as contrastive terms to the corrupt and decadent modern world with its complacent Christianity. While he clearly regards the specific forms of this Medieval appropriation of Christianity to be misguided, he is nonetheless positively disposed toward the general understanding of it as something to be lived and realized by each individual.
Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
