Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self

C. Stephen Evans is a University Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities at Baylor University. He is the author of more than sixteen books, including Kierkegaard's Ethic of Love (2004), Pocket Dictionary of Apologetics and Philosophy of Religion (2003), and The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith (1996).

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceA Note on Citations from KierkegaardSIGLAPART ONE. Introduction1 Kierkegaard as a Christian ThinkerPART TWO. Kiekegaard the Philosopher2 Realism and Antirealism in Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript3 Kant and Kierkegaard on the Possibility of Metaphysics4 The Role of Irony in Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments5 Kierkegaard's View of Humor: Must Christians Always Be Solemn?6 Misusing Religious Language: Something about Kierkegaard and The Myth of God IncarnatePART THREE. Kierkegaard on Faith, Reason, and Reformed Epistemology7 Is Kierkegaard an Irrationalist? Reason, Paradox, and Faith8 Apologetic Arguments in Philosophical Fragments9 The Relevance of Historical Evidence for Christian Faith: A Critique of a Kierkegaardian View10 Kierkegaard and Plantinga on Belief in God: Subjectivity as the Ground of Properly Basic Religious Beliefs11 Externalist Epistemology, Subjectivity, and Christian Knowledge: Plantinga and KierkegaardPART FOUR. Kierkegaard on Ethics and Authority12 Faith as the Telos of Morality: A Reading of Fear and Trembling13 A Kierkegaardian View of the Foundations of Morality14 Kierkegaard on Religious Authority: The Problem of the CriterionPART FIVE. Kierkegaard on the Self: Philosophical Psychology15 Who is the Other in The Sickness unto Death? God and Human Relations in the Constitution of the Self16 Kierkegaard's View of the Unconscious17 Does Kierkegaard Think Beliefs Can Be Directly Willed?18 Where There's a Will There's a Way: Kierkegaard's Theory of ActionPART SIX. Conclusion19 Where Can Kierkegaard Take Us?NotesBibliographyIndex