Søren, and Thanks for All the Fish

Søren Kierkegaard… I probably discovered this Great Dane (only to be bettered in the greatness respect by Peter Schmeichel) around 1994, when I read through the first edition of Alister McGrath’s Christian Theology: An Introduction, but his writings only began to inspire me around 1997 when Alan Torrance gave him the thumbs up. The extent of my admiration was summed up in an essay I submitted in 1998 as part of Colin Gunton’s KCL module ‘A Selected Modern Theologian’, in which I explored Kierkegaard’s influence on Karl Barth. (Despite the module title, ‘A Selected Modern Theologian’ always looked at Barth.) Anyway, it’s been a while since I read anything to do with Kierkegaard, but Grove Books has now published Matthew D. Kirkpatrick’s Søren Kierkegaard, which can be bought here for the not-too shabby sum of £3.95. Enjoy!