Casey Spinksis teaching postdoctoral fellow of religion at Baylor University, USA.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Note on AbbreviationsPart One: IntroductionBeing and the Essentially ChristianPart Two: Being an Ontological WriterChapter Two: (Not) Being a KnowerChapter Three: Being EdifiedPart Three: Being-In-Itself: SilenceChapter Four: Being SilentChapter Five: Against Being Bound to Human SpeechPart Four: Being-For-Itself: ObedienceChapter Six: Being ObedientChapter Seven: Against Being a MasterPart Five: Being-In-And-For-Itself: JoyChapter Eight: Being JoyChapter Nine: Against Being in DespairPart Six: ConclusionThe End of the Path of ThinkingBibliographyIndex

Casey Spinks has given us a rich and illuminating theological guide to Kierkegaard’s vision of what it means to be. Beautifully crafted, Kierkegaard's Ontology: The Faith to Be shows how Kierkegaard draws our attention beyond abstract speculation into the lived reality of faith. The result is a study that is both rigorous and edifying—one that, if read faithfully, should inspire a kind of constructive theological reflection that has much to offer the Church today.

Casey Spinksis teaching postdoctoral fellow of religion at Baylor University, USA.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Note on AbbreviationsPart One: IntroductionBeing and the Essentially ChristianPart Two: Being an Ontological WriterChapter Two: (Not) Being a KnowerChapter Three: Being EdifiedPart Three: Being-In-Itself: SilenceChapter Four: Being SilentChapter Five: Against Being Bound to Human SpeechPart Four: Being-For-Itself: ObedienceChapter Six: Being ObedientChapter Seven: Against Being a MasterPart Five: Being-In-And-For-Itself: JoyChapter Eight: Being JoyChapter Nine: Against Being in DespairPart Six: ConclusionThe End of the Path of ThinkingBibliographyIndex

Casey Spinks has given us a rich and illuminating theological guide to Kierkegaard’s vision of what it means to be. Beautifully crafted, Kierkegaard's Ontology: The Faith to Be shows how Kierkegaard draws our attention beyond abstract speculation into the lived reality of faith. The result is a study that is both rigorous and edifying—one that, if read faithfully, should inspire a kind of constructive theological reflection that has much to offer the Church today.

Casey Spinksis teaching postdoctoral fellow of religion at Baylor University, USA.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsA Note on AbbreviationsPart One: IntroductionBeing and the Essentially ChristianPart Two: Being an Ontological WriterChapter Two: (Not) Being a KnowerChapter Three: Being EdifiedPart Three: Being-In-Itself: SilenceChapter Four: Being SilentChapter Five: Against Being Bound to Human SpeechPart Four: Being-For-Itself: ObedienceChapter Six: Being ObedientChapter Seven: Against Being a MasterPart Five: Being-In-And-For-Itself: JoyChapter Eight: Being JoyChapter Nine: Against Being in DespairPart Six: ConclusionThe End of the Path of ThinkingBibliographyIndex

Casey Spinks has given us a rich and illuminating theological guide to Kierkegaard’s vision of what it means to be. Beautifully crafted, Kierkegaard's Ontology: The Faith to Be shows how Kierkegaard draws our attention beyond abstract speculation into the lived reality of faith. The result is a study that is both rigorous and edifying—one that, if read faithfully, should inspire a kind of constructive theological reflection that has much to offer the Church today.