Transforming Vision: Imagination and Will in Kierkegaardian Faith

by M. Jamie Ferreira

The metaphor of a "leap of faith" is probably the element most widely recognized as a distinctive characteristic of a "Kierkegaardian" account of the transition to religious faith. Both in popular and scholarly circles this "leap" has usually been understood in terms of an act of will-power. Challenging such a volitionalist view, as well as some current alternatives to it which see instead only an ineffable "miracle" of grace, Ferreira argues that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198263317
• ISBN13: 9780198263319
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"