Fortunate Fallibility

Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin

von Jason A Mahn

282 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

For more than 1,500 years, the claim that Adam's Fall might be considered 'fortunate' has been Christianity's most controversial and difficult idea. While keepers of the Easter vigil in the fifth century (and later John Milton) praised sin only as a backhanded witness to the ineffability of redemption, modern speculative theodicy came to understand all evil as comprehensible, historically productive, and therefore fortunate, while the romantic poets credited transgression with bolstering individual creativity and spirit.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Christentum
• ISBN: 9780199790661
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2011
• Größe: 240 x 161 mm
• Verlag: Oxford University Press