T&t Clark Companion to the Theology of Kierkegaard

This companion explores S ren Kierkegaard’s theological importance, offering a comprehensive reading of his work through a distinctly theological lens, including interpretative concerns, his approach to specific doctrines, and theological trajectories for thinking beyond his work.

Beginning with essays on key interpretative factors involved in approaching Kierkegaard’s complex corpus, there are also historical accounts of his theological development, followed by - for the first time in a single volume - focused expositions of Kierkegaard’s approach to particular doctrinal themes, from those oft-discussed in his work (e.g. Christology) to those more understated (e.g. Pneumatology). The book concludes with theological trajectories for Kierkegaard’s thought in the twenty-first century. This volume helps not only to situate Kierkegaard’s theology more firmly on the map, but to situate Kierkegaard more firmly on the theological map, as one who has much to offer both the form and content of the theological task.

Aaron P. Edwards is Lecturer in Theology, Preaching, and Mission at Cliff College, Derbyshire, UK. Before this, he was a Teaching Fellow in Divinity at the University of Aberdeen, lecturing on religion, politics, and cultural crisis. He is widely published in various areas of theology, philosophy, and missiology in numerous academic journals, particularly on the thought of Kierkegaard and the theology of preaching. He also has research interests in the thought of Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Reformers, and the Great Awakeners, and has spoken at numerous academic conferences in Chicago, Durham, Edinburgh, London, Birmingham, Baltimore, and Copenhagen, and others. He is the author of A Theology of Preaching and Dialectic: Scriptural Tension, Heraldic Proclamation, and the Pneumatological Moment (London: T&T Clark, 2018).

David J. Gouwens is Professor of Theology (Emeritus) at Brite Divinity School, USA. He is the author of Kierkegaard’s Dialectic of the Imagination (1989), Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker (1996), and co-editor of The Paul L. Holmer Papers, 3 vols. (2012). He served as President of The Søren Kierkegaard Society of North America and most recently as Co-Chair of the Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group of the American Academy of Religion.