TY  - BOOK
AU  - Podmore,Simon D.
TI  - Struggling with God: Kierkegaard and the temptation of spiritual trial 
SN  - 9780227902103
AV  - B4378.R44 P63eb
U1  - 210 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - James Clark & Company
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy and religion
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Existentialism
KW  - fast
KW  - Theology
KW  - Religion
KW  - ukslc
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Life / Spiritual Warfare
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Struggling with God : towards a Kierkegaardian theology of spiritual trial --; The secret struggle : lost in translation --; The old devotional books : Anfechtung in Tauler and the Theologia Deutsch --; Melancholia coram Deo : Luther's theology of Anfechtung --; God's fire in the soul : Anfechtung in Arndt and Boehme --; Before God in secret : spiritual trial and temptation in Kierkegaard I --; The God-forsaken God : spiritual trial and temptation in Kierkegaard II --; The desire of spirit : restlessness and the transparency of rest --; The temptation of spiritual trial
N2  - Invoking the biblical motif of Jacob's struggle with the Face of God (Genesis 32), Simon D. Podmore undertakes a constructive theological account of 'spiritual trial' (tentatio; known in German mystical and Lutheran tradition as Anfechtung) in relation to enduring questions of the otherness and hiddenness of God and the self, the problem of suffering and evil, the freedom of Spirit, and the anxious relationship between temptation and ordeal, fear and desire. This book traces a genealogy of spiritual trial from medieval German mystical theology, through Lutheran and Pietistic thought (Tauler; L
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