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__The Abased Christ__ is the first monograph to be devoted exclusively to Søren Kierkegaard’s Christological masterpiece, __Practice in Christianity__. Alongside an argument for a new translation of the work’s title, it offers detailed textual commentary on a series of themes in __Practice in Christianity__, such as the person of Christ, contemporaneity, imitation, and Kierkegaard’s philosophy of history. Anti-Climacus, the pseudonymous author of __Practice in Christianity__, presents to his readers a uniquely challenging understanding of who Christ is and what it means to follow him. The Christ of Anti-Climacus is not the glorious Christ who abides with the Father in heaven, but the abased Christ who is poor, marginal, offensive, and persecuted. Throughout __Practice in Christianity__, we are called not only to perceive the abased Christ, but to follow after him. The Abased Christ aims to enrich historical theologians’ appreciation of Kierkegaard’s Christology. However, it concludes by grappling with questions of power, agency, and sacrifice which have been at the forefront of contemporary theology in the 20^th^ and 21^st^ centuries, thereby suggesting how we might make sense of K

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Author

Thomas J. Millay

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110989465

Category

nonfiction