In 11 essays written over the course of nearly 20 years, Pyper (biblical studies, U. of Sheffield) demonstrates that the Bible is a key to understanding Danish religious philosopher S繹ren
Kierkegaard (1813-55). What passionately concerned him, he says, was the task of showing how the most troubling, puzzling, and offensive passages of the Bible bring a message of good news and
of joy. Among his perspectives are the constitution of the Bible and the authorship in Concluding Unscientific Postscript, the peril and promise of the Bible as "Letter from the Beloved," the
figure of the teacher in Philosophical Fragments, the language of myth and the myth of language, and Paul and Kierkegaard in dialogue. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co.
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