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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Sigla -- Introduction: Kierkegaard's Mission -- Kierkegaard's Account of His Activity as a Writer -- Leading Concepts in Kierkegaard's Approach to Mission -- Part One: The Psychological Framework -- 1. Human Nature -- Aristotle and Anti-Climacus -- Despair -- Spirit -- Deviations from Spirit: The Forms of Despair -- Features of Human Nature Uncovered in the Exploration of Despair -- 2. Character -- A Self without Character -- Kierkegaard and Classical Ethics -- Character -- Kierkegaard on Character -- 3. Flight from Character -- Character and Psychological Well-being -- Categories Governing the Aesthetic Sphere -- The Aesthete's Life-Project -- The Discipline of Forgetting and Remembering -- The Discipline of Poetization -- Failure -- 4. Virtues -- Virtue, Character, and the Self -- Some Features of Virtues According to Judge William -- An Incisive Comment by Johannes Climacus -- Wisdom -- Not Virtue but Faith -- The Question of "Virtue Ethics" -- Existential Virtue Ethics -- 5. Sin -- A Pattern of Thought in Kierkegaard's Writings -- Sin and Psychology -- Sin, Despair, and Anxiety -- Sin and Sinfulness -- Sin and Virtues -- 6. Passions and Thoughts -- Thinking and Living -- Passions as Concerns and Passions as Emotions -- Emotions as Shaped by Thought -- Emotions as Aspect Perceptions -- Deceptive Feelings and Feelings without Depth -- Thought against Passion -- 7. Understanding and Rhetoric -- Kierkegaard as an Essential Author -- Authorship as Christian Mission -- Knowledge and Understanding -- Socrates on Moral Knowledge -- Understanding as Intrinsic to Virtues -- Kierkegaard's Rhetoric -- Part Two: Features of Christian Character -- 8. Joy -- Joy and Virtue -- "My" Reader -- The "Intentionality" of Joy.

Machine generated contents note: Table of Contents Introduction: Kierkegaard's Mission - Part One: The Psychological Framework - 1. Human Nature - 2. Character - 3. Flight from Character - 4. Virtues - 5. Sin - 6. Passion and Thought - 7. Understanding and Rhetoric - Part Two: Features of Christian Character - 8. Joy - 9. Faith -10. Hope - 11. Love - 12. Humility - 13. Patience - 14. Gratitude - Concluding Postscript.

Classically, gratitude is a tri-polar construal, logically ordering a benefactor, a benefice, and a beneficiary in a favour-giving-receiving situation. Grammatically, the poles are distinguished and bound together by the prepositions 'to' and 'for'; so I call this classic concept 'to-for' gratitude. Classic religious gratitude follows this schema, with God as the benefactor. Such gratitude, when felt, is a religious experience, and a reliable readiness or 'habit' of such construal is a religious virtue. However, atheists have sometimes felt an urge or need for an analogous experience and virtue of gratitude, and theists sometimes feel intellectual discomfort with classical theistic gratitude on consideration of the misfortunes that characterize our life along with its blessings. In response, another conception of religious gratitude has been attempted, a construal that lacks the to-for structure. This paper probes the significance of the benefactor for gratitude, both secular and religious, and, with Søren Kierkegaard's help, some features of the theology of classical religious gratitude that dissolve the problem of misfortunes.