Kierkegaard as Theologian: Recovering My Self

Patricia Morley is professor emerita of English and Canadian studies at
Concordia University, and the author of Kurlek, Margaret Laurence: The
Long Journey Home, and As Though Life Mattered: Leo Kennedy’s Story.

It takes a brave theologian to tackle Sшren Kierkegaard, the brilliant
Danish poet, theologian, and existentialist writer who explored the
loneliness of man’s relationship with God. Arnold Come, emeritus
professor of systematic theology and president of the San Francisco
Theological Seminary, is both brave and lucid, a theologian passionately
engaged with his subject.

Kierkegaard as Theologian is the companion volume to Come’s earlier
Kierkegaard as Humanist: Discovering My Self. Taken together, the two
studies reveal the richness of Kierkegaard’s thought and the depth of
Come’s exegesis of it. The current volume stresses the difficult
problem of what could be essential and unique to the Christian view of
self if one grants much of the capacity for Christian loving to humanity
in general.

Come’s carefully reasoned analysis of the self in relation to God
allows Kierkegaard to speak for himself while providing welcome
insights. This is an important study of a thinker central to modern
religious and philosophical thought.