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In his posthumously published Journals and Papers, Kierkegaard boldly claimed, "Oh, once I am dead, Fear and Trembling alone will be enough for an imperishable name as an author. Then it will be read, translated into foreign languages as well. The reader will almost shrink from the frightful pathos in the book." Certainly, Fear and Trembling has been translated into foreign languages, and its fame has ensured Kierkegaard's place in the pantheon of Western philosophy. Today, however, most shrink from the book not because of its frightful pathos but because of its fearsome impenetrability. In this first volume of a Reading Kierkegaard miniseries, Martens carefully unfolds the form and content of Kierkegaard's celebrated pseudonymous text, guiding and inviting the reader to embrace the challenge of wrestling with it to the end. Throughout, Martens demonstrates that Fear and Trembling is not merely a book that contains frightful pathos; it is also an entree into Kierkegaard's vibrant and polyphonic corpus that is nearly as restless as the faith it commends

Foreword : memos from Yoder -- The heritage of nonviolent thought and action -- The American civil rights struggle -- The lessons of the nonviolent experience -- The fall and rise of the just war tradition -- The science of conflict -- From the wars of Joshua to Jewish pacifism -- Jesus and nonviolent liberation -- Early Christian cosmology and nonviolence -- Varieties of Catholic peace theology I : nonviolent spirituality -- Varieties of Catholic peace theology II : professors and pastors -- Varieties of Catholic peace theology III : Latin American models