Kierkegaard Søren - Kierkegaard and Political Theology

Kierkegaard and Political Theology

edited by Roberto Sirvent and Silas Morgan

foreword by Gordon Marino

For Amy Laura Hall and Kyle Roberts,

who first taught us to read Kierkegaard

The most one person can do for another is to unsettle him.

Sren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript

I believe in making a difference by thinking little thoughts and sharing them widely. I seek to provoke, annoy, bother, irritate, and amuse; I am chasing small projects, micropolitics, hunches, whims, fancies.

Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure

And this way, which is Christ, this narrow way, as it goes on, becomes narrower and narrower to the end, to death.

Sren Kierkegaard, For Self-Examination

Contributors

Editors

Roberto Sirvent , Associate Professor of Political and Social Ethics at Hope International University in Fullerton, CA, USA.

Silas Morgan , Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, USA.

Contributors (in order of appearance)

Gordon Marino , Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, USA.

Saitya Brata Das , Assistant Professor at the Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

Anthony Rudd , Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. Olaf College, MN, USA.

David Lappano , Centre for Christian Studies, Winnipeg, Canada

Stephen Backhouse , Lecturer in Social and Political Theology, St Mellitus College, London, UK.

Heather C. Ohaneson , Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program, George Fox University, USA.

Jamie Aroosi , Visiting Assistant Professor, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, USA.

Natalia Marandiuc , Assistant Professor of Christian Theology, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA.

Jennifer Elisa Veninga , Associate Professor of Religious and Theological Studies at St. Edward's University in Austin, TX, USA.

Vincent Lloyd , Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA.

James D. Reid , Associate Professor of Philosophy, the Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colorado, USA.

Rick Anthony Furtak , Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College, Colorado, USA.

Kyle Roberts , Schilling Professor of Public Theology and Church and Economic Life, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, New Brighton, MN, USA.

Abrahim H. Khan , Professor in Faculty of Theology, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA.

Helene Russell , Associate Professor of Theology, Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

Dana Lloyd , Ph.D. candidate, the Department of Religion, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.

Mary-Jane Rubenstein , Professor of Religion and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA.

Mariana Alessandri , Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Texas, USA.

Jason A. Mahn , Associate Professor of Religion and Director of the Presidential Center for Faith and Learning at Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, USA.

Howard Pickett , Assistant Professor of Ethics and Poverty Studies, and Director of the Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA, USA.

Duncan Reyburn , Senior Lecturer, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Bartholomew Ryan , Researcher and Coordinator of CultureLab, Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA), New University of Lisbon, Portugal.

Burkhard Conrad, OPL, Diocesan Liaison Officer for Universities, University Chaplaincies, and Adult Education, Archdiocese of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Matthew D. Kirkpatrick , Lecturer in Ethics and Doctrine at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, UK.

Kara N. Slade , Theologian in Residence and Associate Chaplain at the Episcopal Church in Princeton, Associate Rector for Formation, Trinity Parish, Princeton, NJ, USA.