Contemporary with Christ: Kierkegaard and Second-Personal Spirituality

by Joshua Cockayne

The Christian life, concerned with both spirituality and doctrine, aims not at rationally defensible truth but at life-transforming love. Greater understanding of the truth will not settle the restlessness in a human spirit; only the redemptive power of relationship with God can calm the soul. The crux of Kierkegaard's presentation of Christianity is not that doctrine is unimportant, but that it is ultimately insufficient for a life lived in relationship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481310879
• ISBN13: 9781481310871
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"