Kierkegaard's God and the Good Life

Stephen Minister is Clara Lea Olsen Professor of Ethical Values and associate professor of philosophy at Augustana University in South Dakota. He is the author of De-Facing the Other: Reason, Ethics, and Politics after Difference. J. Aaron Simmons is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Furman University in Greenville, SC. He is author of God and the Other: Ethics and Politics After the Theological Turn and author (with Bruce Ellis Benson) of The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction.Michael Strawser is Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida. He is author of Both/And: Reading Kierkegaard from Irony to Edification and Kierkegaard and the Philosophy of Love.

• Abbreviations for Books by Kierkegaard IntroductionPart One: Faith and Love1. Love as the End of Human Existence / Sharon Krishek2. Love Is the Highest Good / Michael Strawser3. Erotic Wisdom: On God, Passion, Faith, and Falling in Love / Pia Søltoft4. The Integration of Neighbor-Love and Special Loves in Kierkegaard and von Hildebrand / John J. Davenport5. Kierkegaard, Weil, and Agapic Moral Fideism / Mark A. TietjenPart Two: Moral Psychology and Ethical Existence 6. Kierkegaard's Virtues? Humility and Gratitude as the Grounds of Contentment, Patience, and Hope in Kierkegaard's Moral Psychology / John Lippitt 7. The Heart of Knowledge: Kierkegaard on Passion and Understanding / Rick Anthony Furtak8. From Hegel to Google: Kierkegaard and the Perils of "the System" / Christopher B. Barnett9. An Ethics for Adults? Kierkegaard and the Ambiguity of Exaltation / Stephen MinisterPart Three: Existence Before God10. Difficult Faith and Living Well / Edward F. Mooney11. Kierkegaard and the Early Church on Christian Knowledge and Its Existential Implications / M.G. Piety12. Thunderstruck: Divine Irony in Kierkegaard's Job / Grant Julin13. Kierkegaard and Pentecostal Philosophy / J. Aaron SimmonsBibliographyIndex

"All in all, the editors of this volume have put together a thoughtful and sometimes provocative collection of essays by a number of Kierkegaard scholars and philosophers for the reader's consideration. . . .The volume undoubtedly makes a contribution to contemporary philosophical debates in the philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, and epistemology, especially with regard to the importance of faith and love for leading a good and meaningful human life."—International Journal for Philosophy of Religion"Recommended."—Choice"This is an engaging and insightful volume of articles."—Reading Religion"Invites the reader to think anew about what Kierkegaard was saying and what we can learn from him in the context of our time, particularly what it means to become a Christian in terms of the moral task of love and living a life worthy of a human being."—Sylvia Walsh, translator of Kierkegaard's Discourses at the Communion on Fridays