A Companion to Kierkegaard

Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xiiiChronology of Kierkegaard's Works xivList of Abbreviations xviiiEditor's Introduction: Kierkegaard and the Rich Field of Kierkegaard Studies 1Part I Philosophy 19A. Sources 211 A Shimmering Socrates: Philosophy and Poetry in Kierkegaard's Platonic Authorship 23Jacob Howland2 Kierkegaard's Use of German Philosophy: Leibniz to Fichte 36Roe Fremstedal3 Kierkegaard's View of Hegel, His Followers and Critics 50Jon Stewart4 Kierkegaard's Relations to Danish Philosophy of the Golden Age 66Carl Henrik KochB. Reception 815 Kierkegaard and Existentialism: From Anxiety to Autonomy 83K. Brian Soderquist6 Postmodernism and Deconstruction: Paradox, Sacrifice, and the Future of Writing 96Marius Timmann MjaalandC. Concepts and Contributions 1117 Kierkegaard's Views on Normative Ethics, Moral Agency, and Metaethics 113Roe Fremstedal8 Kierkegaard's Skepticism 126Dario GonzalezPart II Theology and Religious Studies 139A. Sources 1419 Kierkegaard and Biblical Studies: A Critical Response to Nineteenth?]Century Hermeneutics 143Lee C. Barrett10 Grace and Rigor in Kierkegaard's Reception of the Church Fathers 155Jack Mulder, Jr.11 Kierkegaard's Mystical and Spiritual Sources: Meister Eckhart to Tersteegen 167Peter Sajda12 Kierkegaard's Appropriation and Critique of Luther and Lutheranism 180Lee C. Barrett13 Shapers of Kierkegaard's Danish Church: Mynster, Grundtvig, Martensen 193Curtis L. ThompsonB. Reception 20714 From Barth to Tillich: Kierkegaard and the Dialectical Theologians 209Heiko Schulz15 Other Lutheran Theologians Responding Contextually to Kierkegaard 223Curtis L. Thompson16 Catholicism: Finding Inspiration and Provocation in Kierkegaard 237Christopher B. Barnett and Peter SajdaC. Concepts and Contributions 25117 Kierkegaard as Existentialist Dogmatician: Kierkegaard on Systematic Theology, Doctrine, and Dogmatics 253David R. Law18 Biblical Variations: Kierkegaard's Rewritten "Life of Jesus" 269Iben Damgaard19 Rethinking Religion

Jon Stewart is Associate Professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen. He is the editor of the Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources, Texts from Golden Age Denmark and Danish Golden Age Studies series. He is the co-editor of the Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook and the Kierkegaard Studies Monograph series. Former leader of the Nordic Network of Kierkegaard Research and the International Kierkegaard Network, his published books include, Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered (2003), Idealism and Existentialism: Hegel and Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Philosophy (2010), The Unity of Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit": A Systematic Interpretation (2011), The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing: The Perils of Conformity (2013), and The Cultural Crisis of the Danish Golden Age: Heiberg, Martensen and Kierkegaard (2015).