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    Taking Kierkegaard Back to Church: The Ecclesial Implications of the Gospel
    Taking Kierkegaard Back to Church: The Ecclesial Implications of the Gospel
    Taking Kierkegaard Back to Church: The Ecclesial Implications of the Gospel
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    Taking Kierkegaard Back to Church: The Ecclesial Implications of the Gospel

    By Aaron P. Edwards

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    Soren Kierkegaard's vociferous attacks upon Christendom have hardly endeared him to the ecclesial establishment, yet the church continues to dismiss his paradoxical voice at its peril. This book moves beyond the ill-conceived postmodern interpretations of Kierkegaard's thought by illuminating his ecclesiological value through a distinctly kerygmatic lens.
    Kierkegaard's authorship demonstrated this mission in creative and arresting ways. His sharp critiques of academic theologians and duplicitous pastors remain starkly relevant today. Furthermore, his fascinating reflections on inconsequential sermons, biblical defamiliarity, indirect communication, pastoral correctivity, street preaching, revivalism, and even church furniture, further illustrate the ways he sought to reimply the gospel to a Christendom-poisoned church. Hearing Kierkegaard's ecclesiological voice afresh, we also see its surprising applicability to the post-Christendom situation, which may like to think it has moved on without him. This book will intrigue anyone interested in the fundamental questions of what it means to hear (or not to hear) the gospel today, if we dare to allow our ears to do so.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCascade Books
    Release dateMay 13, 2022
    ISBN9781725259577
    Taking Kierkegaard Back to Church: The Ecclesial Implications of the Gospel
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    Aaron P. Edwards

    Aaron P. Edwards is Lecturer in Theology, Preaching, and Mission at Cliff College, Derbyshire, UK. He is the author of A Theology of Preaching and Dialectic (2018), and the coeditor, with David J. Gouwens, of the T. & T. Clark Companion to the Theology of Kierkegaard (2019).

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