Kierkegaard and Religion

Sylvia Walsh is the author of Kierkegaard: Thinking Christianly in an Existential Mode (2009); Living Christianly: Kierkegaard's Dialectic of Christian Existence (2005); Living Poetically: Kierkegaard's Existential Aesthetics (1994); translator of Kierkegaard's Discourses at the Communion on Fridays (2011) and Fear and Trembling (Cambridge, 2006); and co-editor of Feminist Interpretations of Kierkegaard (1997). She directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers on Kierkegaard and served as president of the Søren Kierkegaard Society, co-chair of the Kierkegaard, Religion and Culture Group in the American Academy of Religion (AAR), and advisory board member of International Kierkegaard Commentary.

• 1. The constituents of personality; 2. Portraits of character; 3. Character and virtue; 4. Existence as a time of testing; 5. The content and formation of Christian character; 6. Progress and sanctification in the Christian life.

'In this incredibly clear, sweepingly aware, and compellingly argued book, Walsh presents Kierkegaard as being most radical when at his most religious, and at his most empirically relevant when at his most existentially concerned. Although this book is primarily written for a scholarly audience, the Kierkegaard that Sylvia Walsh presents is someone that I hope all my students get to meet. And since I get to decide what goes on the syllabus, I will make sure that they do.' J. Aaron Simmons, Reading Religion