Andrew J. Burgess

Attacks on Christendom in a World Come of Age

Theology

“Finally we have a book on Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer that reflects a comprehensive study of both men, thereby providing a solid basis for future research in the area as well as identifying in the two a powerful, shared voice for speaking to today's world.”

Eros and Self-Emptying

Theology

“Kierkegaard scholarship has long needed a definitive study of the Augustine-Kierkegaard relationship; and this is it. . . . This book will be valuable not just for students of Augustine, at the dawn of state-sponsored Christendom, or of Kierkegaard, at its twilight, but also for anyone who wants to understand the whole of Western Christianity at its heart.”

From Despair to Faith

Philosophy

“This book may change not only your way of reading Kierkegaard but even how you shelve your books. That is to say, if you have been parking your Kierkegaard collection right after the nineteenth-century German Idealists or else intermingled with the twentieth-century existentialists, Barnett's argument will incline you instead to set Kierkegaard's religious discourses, at least, up on that special shelf you reserve for books that get to the heart of the Christian life, alongside similar writings by Augustine, Luther, and Bonhoeffer.”

On Kierkegaard and the Truth

Philosophy

“"Almost fifty years ago Paul Holmer finished a manuscript about Kierkegaard but then left it unpublished. Instead, emulating Socrates, Holmer spent the following decades focused on encouraging Yale Kierkegaard students to examining their own lives with intellectual rigor. The result was a revolution in American Kierkegaard scholarship . . .”

Truth and Subjectivity, Faith and History

Philosophy

“A big part of the challenge Varughese John takes on in the present volume is to sort out the various aspects of confusion over subjective truth. To my mind he carries off the investigation very well. What fascinates me especially about Professor John's approach, moreover, is the way he draws upon key aspects of the classical and contemporary traditions of India. Up to now the names of figures such as Ramānujā and Amartya Sen, for example, have appeared all too rarely on the pages of discussions of Kierkegaard's works, but, with this study as a model, one may hope that they will appear more and more frequently in the future.”