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Works of Love in a World of Violence Feminism, Kierkegaard, and the Limits of Self-Sacrifice

:	Deidre Nicole Green
:	Works of Love in a World of Violence Feminism, Kierkegaard, and the Limits of Self-Sacrifice
:	Mohr Siebeck
:	9783161548468
:	Religion in Philosophy and Theology
:	1
:	CHF 70.30
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:	Christentum
:	English

:	217
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Drawing on the thought of Kant, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche in order to illuminate and interrogate feminist critiques of self-sacrifice, Deidre Nicole Green relies on Kierkegaard's view of Christian love to offer a constructive theological framework for limiting self-sacrifice that resists an overly simplistic identification of self-sacrifice with love. Although Kierkegaard's Works of Love deems Christian love essentially sacrificial, his view of love also circumscribes the role of self-sacrifice within human life. Particularly, it offers the potential for a rigorous and empowering model of forgiveness that challenges traditional ideals of the submissive, permissive woman while keeping love central to the dialogue. Rather than passively accept unjust relationships, works of love must seek to ameliorate a world of violence.

Born 1981; 2007 MA in Religion from Yale Divinity School; 2012 PhD in Religion from Claremont Graduate University with specialization in Women's Studies in Religion and Philosophy of Religion and Theology.

	Cover	1
	Acknowledgments	8
	Preface	10
	Contents	12
	Introduction	16
	1. Kierkegaard and Love	16
	2. Definition of Key Terms	17
	3. Methodology	18
	4. Feminism and Kierkegaard	19
	5. Description of Chapters	22
	Chapter 1: The Problems of SelfSacrifice: Womanist and Feminist Theological Perspectives	25
	1. Condones Abuse and Justifies Violence	26
	2. Necrophilia and Denial of the Female Body	31
	3. Targets the Oppressed and Reifies Patriarchal Relations	39
	4. Engenders Failure to be SelfRealizing, SelfDefining,and Self-Naming	44
	5. Conclusion	51
	Chapter 2: Selflessness as Sin: Daly, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard	55
	1. Mary Daly	55
	2. Friedrich Nietzsche	64
	3. Søren Kierkegaard	74
	4. Conclusion	85
	Chapter 3: Love and Trembling	86
	1. Immanuel Kant on the Binding of Isaac	87
	2. Kierkegaard on the Binding	92
	3. Freedom	100
	4. Love and Trembling	104
	a) Attunement	106
	b) Love as Solid Food	115
	c) Abraham’s Trusting Love Protects against Deception	120
	d) Absolute Duty to God	123
	e) Doubt Affords a Test	125
	5. Conclusion	129
	Chapter 4: Envisioning Love: Freedom, Risk, and Right Relationship	130
	1. Introduction	130
	2. Kierkegaard on Christ	131
	3. Following Christ	136
	4. Picturing Risk: Kierkegaard and Ethical Vision	139
	5. Womanist Thought and Feminist Ethics of Risk	144
	6. Abraham Re-envisioned or, Risk and Trembling	151
	7. The Woman who Loved Much	156
	8. Kierkegaard on Love and Agency	162
	9. Conclusion	163
	Chapter 5: Works of Love in a World of Violence: Kierkegaard, Feminism, and the Limits of Self-sacrifice	165
	1. Feminist Critiques of Selfsacrifice	166
	2. Kierkegaard and Works of Love	168
	3. A SelfLove	172
	4. Feminist Ethics and Kierkegaard’s Ethic of Love	176
	5. Works of Love in a World of Violence	179
	a) Redoubling	180
	b) Double Danger	181
	6. Winning the One Overcome	185
	7. Conclusion	187
	Conclusion: Love’s Becoming: Self-Love and the Atonement of Christ	189
	Acknowledgments	203
	Bibliography	204
	Index	216