Kierkegaard and the Refusal of Transcendence challenges the standard view that Kierkegaard's God is infinitely other than the world. It argues that his work immerses us in the paradoxical nature of existence itself, and opposes any flight into another world.

Challenges the standard view that Kierkegaard's God is infinitely other than the world. Argues that Kierkegaard's work immerses readers in the paradoxical nature of existence itself, and opposes any flight into another world. Traces the ways in which Kierkegaard performs distinctive acts of resistance to the transcendent.

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Steven Shakespeare is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at Liverpool Hope University, UK

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Introduction

1. Kierkegaard and the Limit of Analogy
2. Distinctions: Marks of the Paradox
3. The Paradox is Not One: Transfiguring Transcendence
4. Monstrance: Articulating the Paradox
5. Silhouettes: Figuring the Immanent Paradox
6. Satan's Angel: The Interruption of the Demonic
7. Kierkegaard, Spinoza and the Intellectual Love of God
   Conclusion: Theology for Creatures