Acknowledgements 1. Churchgoing 2. God's afterlife 3. Henry James and the varieties of religious experience 4. Marcel Proust and the elementary forms of religious life 5. Franz Kafka and the hermeneutics of suspicion 6. Virginia Woolf and the disenchantment of the world 7. The burial of the dead Select bibliography Index Notes.

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Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel

1. Introduction: Kierkegaard's life and works 2. Pseudonymity and indirect communication 3. The human self: truth and subjectivity 4. The stages of existence: forms of the aesthetic life 5. The ethical life as the quest for selfhood 6. Religious existence: religiousness 7. Christian existence: faith and the paradox 8. Kierkegaard's dual challenge to the contemporary world.

Kierkegaard: An Introduction

Preface Introduction Part I Having Place: 1 Pace defined: the ecological importance of place 2 Place given: Eve as the Garden's spirit of place 3 Place lost: Eve's fall as an uprooting 4 Place regained: Sabrina puts down roots Part II The Underlying Importance of Place: 5 The New Testament's call to place: Paul and Luther's deconstruction 6 Rejecting the placeless ancient doctrines: confusing paradise regained 7 The Old Testament's call to place: Job's wisdom in Milton's poetry 8 The influence of time on place: forbidding unripe fruit 9 Place, body and spirit joined: the earth-human wound in Paradise Lost

Milton and ecology

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Kierkegaard and a Pedagogy of Liminality

Introduction 1. The call to confession in Kierkegaard's Works of Love 2. Provoking the question: deceiving ourselves in Fear and Trembling 3. The poet, the vampire, and the girl in Repetition with Works of Love 4. The married man as master thief in Either/Or 5. Seclusion and disclosure in Stages on Life's Way 6. On the way.

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Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love

Using Kierkegaard's later religious writings as well as his earlier philosophical works, David Gouwens explores this philosopher's religious and theological thought, focusing on human nature, Christ, and Christian discipleship. He helps the reader approach Kierkegaard as someone who both analysed religion and sought to evoke religious dispositions in his readers. Gouwens discusses Kierkegaard's main concerns as a religious and, specifically, Christian thinker, and his treatment of religion using the dialectic of 'becoming Christian', and counters the interpretation of his religious thought as privatistic and asocial. Gouwens appraises both the edifying discourses and the pseudonymous writings, including the particular problems posed by the latter. Between foundationalism and irrationalism, Kierkegaard's ideas are seen to anticipate the end of 'modernity', while standing at the centre of the Christian tradition.

Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker

Kierkegaard's Dialectic of the Imagination

Kierkegaard's understanding of doctrine

On Kierkegaard and the Truth

The essay compares and contrasts the philosophical, theological, and aesthetic approaches to Mozart in the writings of Soren Kierkegaard's aesthete A (Either/Or, I), Karl Barth (primarily Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), and Hans Kung (Mozart: Traces of Transcendence). Whereas Kierkegaard's A outlines a non-religious ‘daemonic Mozart’, Barth and Kung depict two contrasting theological understandings of Mozart's music. Barth's Mozart reflects a Reformed aesthetic, with Mozart as a ‘parable’ of gospel, whereas Kung's Mozart reflects a Roman Catholic ‘sacramental’ vision of music and religious faith. The essay explores how these different visions of Mozart are shaped by both their theological and aesthetic commitments.

David J. Gouwens

Papers

Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker

Kierkegaard's Dialectic of the Imagination

Kierkegaard's understanding of doctrine

On Kierkegaard and the Truth

Mozart Among the Theologians