William Franke

A Heart of Flesh

Philosophy

Afterword

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Negative Theology

Theology

“An inspiring and inviting tour of this sometimes rather desertic, forbidding theological territory. From its very first epigraph quoting Gregory of Nyssa, the book prodigally pours forth gems of apophatic wisdom. The principal source springs are narrated in coherent order and concise language that renders luminous this all too often impenetrable terrain. A precious compendium of what is most worth retaining from this inexhaustibly rich tradition. To be recommended most highly to the widest readership.”

Passion for Nothing

Philosophy

“Following closely Kierkegaard’s most decisive intuitions, Peter Kline succeeds in inheriting and re-launching this spiritual master’s subtle and revolutionary kind of thinking. Kline exploits his own literary talents to produce an existentially moving piece of writing. His work includes edifying prose in the vein developed by Kierkegaard himself and astonishingly worthy of its progenitor. Kline refashions Kierkegaard’s radical religious challenge in postmodern but poignant terms that deeply question our own age and its intellectual complacencies. A crucial question that Kline raises for us is: Does reduplication (Fordoblelse) break the circuit of self-reflexivity? Or is reduplication self-reflexivity operating in a figure of infinity such that it cannot be reflected back to itself and contained and totalized and possessed? Kline’s book offers a fresh, compelling reading of Kierkegaard attuned to our times as well as an original contribution to apophatic theology.”

Rhapsody and Redolence

Arts & Literature

“Piercing and poignant, a rawly sensual poetry that also raises awareness at a theoretical level of the metaphysical underpinnings and resources that make original language possible at the limits of expression.”