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Struggling with God
Simon D. Podmore
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Description for Struggling with God
Paperback. A theological exploration of the tradition of 'spiritual trial', drawing on Kierkegaard's treatment of the topic to propose a modern understanding of the struggle of the Spirit towards God. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCM; HRCS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 474.
Invoking the biblical motif of Jacob's struggle with the Face of God (Genesis 32), Simon D. Podmore undertakes a constructive theological account of 'spiritual trial' (tentatio; known in German mystical and Lutheran tradition as Anfechtung) in relation to enduring questions of the otherness and hiddenness of God and the self, the problem of suffering and evil, the freedom of Spirit, and the anxious relationship between temptation and ordeal, fear and desire. This book traces a genealogy of spiritual trial from medieval German mystical theology, through Lutheran and Pietistic thought (Tauler; Luther; Arndt; Boehme), and reconstructs Kierkegaard's innovative yet under-examined recovery ... Read more
Invoking the biblical motif of Jacob's struggle with the Face of God (Genesis 32), Simon D. Podmore undertakes a constructive theological account of 'spiritual trial' (tentatio; known in German mystical and Lutheran tradition as Anfechtung) in relation to enduring questions of the otherness and hiddenness of God and the self, the problem of suffering and evil, the freedom of Spirit, and the anxious relationship between temptation and ordeal, fear and desire. This book traces a genealogy of spiritual trial from medieval German mystical theology, through Lutheran and Pietistic thought (Tauler; Luther; Arndt; Boehme), and reconstructs Kierkegaard's innovative yet under-examined recovery ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780227173435
SKU
V9780227173435
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About Simon D. Podmore
Dr Simon D. Podmore is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Liverpool Hope University. He is author of Kierkegaard and the Self Before God: Anatomy of the Abyss (Indiana University Press) and numerous articles and essays in philosophical, pastoral, and systematic theology. He is also Secretary of the Soren Kierkegaard Society of the United Kingdom.
Reviews for Struggling with God
"... Podmore offers a groundbreaking development in kierkegaard Studies that shores up the constructive and inter-confessional work that can be done with the theological aspects of Kierkegaard's writings... Podmore rightly argues that in solidarity, Kierkegaard offers his theology of spiritual trial as a hope filled consolation to those who are otherwise tempted to despair..." Joshua Furnal, Reviews in Religion ... Read more