Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 642 g
Reihe: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series
Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 642 g
Reihe: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series
ISBN: 978-0-19-979066-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Restores a controversial and paradoxical understanding of the church, the fortunate Fall, showing its centrality to Christian worship and thought.
Puts theological reading of Kierkegaard in conversation with deconstructionist and rhetorical readings.
Examines Kierkegaard, Hegel, Byron, and the early Christian liturgy, as well as fundamental issues such as religious selfhood, sin, and the relation between faith and morality.
Focuses on Kierkegaard's later, explicitly theological writings
For more than 1,500 years, the claim that Adam's Fall might be considered 'fortunate' has been Christianity's most controversial and difficult idea. While keepers of the Easter vigil in the fifth century (and later John Milton) praised sin only as a backhanded witness to the ineffability of redemption, modern speculative theodicy came to understand all evil as comprehensible, historically productive, and therefore fortunate, while the romantic poets credited transgression with bolstering individual creativity and spirit.
Jason Mahn's compelling study examines Kierkegaard's ''para/orthodixical'' language of human fallibility and Christian sin. Mahn breaks down and reconstructs the concept of the fortunate Fall in Western thought, in context of Kierkegaard's later writings, examining Kierkegaard's blunt critique of Idealism's justification of evil, as well as his playful deconstruction of romantic celebrations of sin. Mahn also argues, though, that Kierkegaard resists the moralization of evil, preferring to consider temptation and sin as determinative dimensions of religious existence. In relation to the assumed ''innocence'' of Christendom's cultured Christians, the self-conscious sinner might be the better religious witness.
Although Mahn shows how Kierkegaard finally replaces actual sin with human fragility, temptation, and the possibility of spiritual offense as that which ''happily'' shapes religious faith, he cogently argues that Kierkegaard's understanding of ''fortunate fallibility'' is at least as rhetorically compelling and theologically operative as talk of a fortunate Fall. Mahn's insights into Kierkegaard's playful maneuvers encourages Christian theologians can speak of sin more particularly and peculiarly than in the typical discourses of church and culture.
Zielgruppe
Students and scholars of Kierkegaard, theodicy, religion and philosophy, theology
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
Weitere Infos & Material
Abbreviations
Introduction: Fault and Fallibility
Chapter 1: Figuring a Fortunate Fall
Chapter 2: Felix Fragilitas in The Concept of Anxiety
Chapter 3: Felix Fallibilitas in The Sickness unto Death
Chapter 4: Felix Offensatio in Practice in Christianity
Chapter 5: Felicitas: Between Cross and Resurrection
Postscript: Christian Para/Orthodoxy: Toward a Postmodern Hamartiology
