
Recovering Christian Character
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Sigla
- Introduction: Kierkegaard's Mission
- Kierkegaard's Account of His Activity as a Writer
- Leading Concepts in Kierkegaard's Approach to Mission
- Part One: The Psychological Framework
- 1. Human Nature
- Aristotle and Anti-Climacus
- Despair
- Spirit
- Deviations from Spirit: The Forms of Despair
- Features of Human Nature Uncovered in the Exploration of Despair
- 2. Character
- A Self without Character
- Kierkegaard and Classical Ethics
- Character
- Kierkegaard on Character
- 3. Flight from Character
- Character and Psychological Well-being
- Categories Governing the Aesthetic Sphere
- The Aesthete's Life-Project
- The Discipline of Forgetting and Remembering
- The Discipline of Poetization
- Failure
- 4. Virtues
- Virtue, Character, and the Self
- Some Features of Virtues According to Judge William
- An Incisive Comment by Johannes Climacus
- Wisdom
- Not Virtue but Faith
- The Question of "Virtue Ethics"
- Existential Virtue Ethics
- 5. Sin
- A Pattern of Thought in Kierkegaard's Writings
- Sin and Psychology
- Sin, Despair, and Anxiety
- Sin and Sinfulness
- Sin and Virtues
- 6. Passions and Thoughts
- Thinking and Living
- Passions as Concerns and Passions as Emotions
- Emotions as Shaped by Thought
- Emotions as Aspect Perceptions
- Deceptive Feelings and Feelings without Depth
- Thought against Passion
- 7. Understanding and Rhetoric
- Kierkegaard as an Essential Author
- Authorship as Christian Mission
- Knowledge and Understanding
- Socrates on Moral Knowledge
- Understanding as Intrinsic to Virtues
- Kierkegaard's Rhetoric
- Part Two: Features of Christian Character
- 8. Joy
- Joy and Virtue
- "My" Reader
- The "Intentionality" of Joy
- Canonically Differentiated Kinds of Joy
- Kierkegaard's Therapeutic of Joy
- 9. Faith
- Three Kinds of Faith
- Faith as a Challenging Ideal
- Faith as a Resolution of Fundamental Despair and Anxiety
- Faith as Belonging to "the Dialectical"
- 10. Hope
- Hope and Human Nature
- Hope as a Virtue
- Excursus: Pagan Virtues
- The Affective Dialectic of Christian Hope
- Hope Is an Aspect of Well-being
- 11. Love
- Works
- Conscience and Love
- Self, Neighbor, and the Duty to Love
- Advantages of Love as a Duty
- Love Builds Up
- Love "Hides" Many Sins
- 12. Humility
- Humility and Pride
- "He Must Increase
- I Must Decrease"
- A Note on "Humble" and "Proud"
- Pride as Contrary to Humility
- Presumption (Arrogance)
- Vanity
- The Domineering Person
- Self-Righteousness
- Humility and Other Virtues
- 13. Patience
- The Connections of Patience
- Two Kinds of Patience
- What Is Impatience and What Is Wrong with It?
- Patiency, Agency, and Freedom
- Acquiring Patience
- Two Disciplines of Patience
- Does Spiritual Patience Promote Mundane Patience?
- 14. Gratitude and Generosity
- Reflection and Gratitude
- The Social Structure of Gratitude
- Gratitude to God
- Gratitude and Generosity to Fellow Human Beings
- Concluding Postscript
- Works Cited
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