One of our most trustworthy guides into Søren Kierkegaard offers here a thick description of the Danes struggle with the tensive valorization of divine and human agency. Exhibited in the process is Kierkegaards rhetorical style of doing theology that privileges practical reason over theoretic reason while emphasizing the necessary involvement of certain forms of passion, disposition, and virtue within religious practice. Readers will be grateful for this refreshing portrayal of Kierkegaard as theologian. -- Curtis L. Thompson, Thiel College If you understand how Kierkegaard navigates the problem of grace and freedom, there is a sense in which you understand his approach to Christian writing as such. On this subject, there is no better guide than Lee Barrett. This book situates Kierkegaards treatment of the will against the backdrop of previous debates and, even more importantly, models how to read him well. -- Carl S. Hughes, Texas Lutheran University
