Volume 4

Kierkegaard and the Patristic and Medieval Traditions

Jon Stewart

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Routledge
18 June 2008

Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600

Series: Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources

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 Ã 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.

Edited by: Jon Stewart
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 816g
ISBN: 9780754663911
ISBN 10: 0754663914
Series: Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 18 June 2008
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Soren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Robert Puchniak, Jack Mulder Jr, Leo Stan, Joseph Ballan, Paul Martens, Pierre Buhler, Istvan Czako, Lee C. Barrett, Benjamin Olivares Bogeskov, Joseph Westfall, Thomas Miles, Peter Sajda, Karl Verstrynge, Joel D.S. Rasmussen, Tonny Aagaard Olesen.