Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction - Struggling with God: Towards a Kierkegaardian
Theology of Spiritual Trial
1. The Secret Struggle: Lost in Translation
2. The Old Devotional Books: Anfechtung in Tauler and the Theologia
Deutsch
3. Melancholia Coram Deo: Luther's Theology of Anfechtung
4. God's Fire in the Soul: Anfechtung in Arndt and Boehme
5. Before God in Secret: Temptation and Spiritual Trial in
Kierkegaard I
6. To the God-forsaken God: Temptation and Spiritual Trial in
Kierkegaard I
7. The Desire of Spirit
8. The Temptation of Spiritual Trial
Index
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.
"... 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 & Theology, Volume 21, issue 4,
2014
"Simon Podmore is establishing a distinctive place within
Kierkegaard studies and one which is promising a significant
contribution to wider theological discourse [...] This is more than
a book about Kierkegaard, it is also a reminder of the theological
resources of Christian spiritual traditions."
George Pattison, Theology, vol.117, issue 4, (2014)
"A thoroughly-researched and carefully-presented book, Struggling
With God merits attention from both Kierkegaardian experts and
those with an interest in Christian spirituality."
Myles Hannan, The Heythrop Journal, vol.55, issue 5, (Sept,
2014)
... an excellent historical and constructive foray into one of
theology's more problematic areas ... Kierkegaard scholars will
recognize this as a helpful resource for presenting a full and
careful accounting of this key aspect of his thought ...this is a
very helpful resource for those interested in the Lutheran history
of interpretation of spiritual trial, those researching a
Kierkegaardian appropriation of Anfechtung, and those doing
constructive work in the place of spiritual struggle in theological
reflection.
Joseph McGarry, Theological Book Review, volume 26, no 1, 2014
"Podmore offers insightful discussion on the nature of our
struggles with God. He helps demonstrate how, during those times
where we feel we are fighting against God, we are, in fact,
struggling against the things that keep us from God. ...
[Struggling with God] would surely be of great interest to anyone
engaged in comparative religious studies."
-Matthew Newland, Graduate Studies, Philosophy, Dominican
University College, Ottawa, Science et Esprit, Vol 69, Issue 2,
2017
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