"In Kierkegaard's Visions for Christian Life: Joy Enfleshed, Deidre Green gives us a remarkable reflection on what it means to live with open-hearted courageous trust. Greens re-reading of Kierkegaard through a feminist lens opens up the meaning of spiritual joy as passionate concern that is the opposite of apathy. This is an erudite and inspiring read. Green takes on challenging topics like hope, forgiveness, and subjectivity, and meets them with humble courage and a way with words."
- Mary Clark Moschella, Yale University School of Divinity
"I had, like too many, left Kierkegaard in the marginsprofound but still patriarchal. Deidre Green renders no mere feminist apologia but a captivating rereading of the female figures key to his theology. Through her indispensable update, his meditation on anxiety and joy offers itself to our so needy moment."
- Catherine Keller, George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew Theological School
"Greens insightful and provocative volume challenges the prevalent perception that Kierkegaards authorship is so riddled with sexist tropes that it cannot possibly be a resource for feminist religious thought. Green compellingly shows that this assessment is mistaken. Her eloquently written pages argue that Kierkegaards pervasive maternal imagery for the divine, his interpretations of biblical women as models of faith, hope, and love, and even his valorization of the birds and the lilies, subvert patriarchal hierarchies and can be used constructively for feminist purposes...This book sheds new light on what Kierkegaard means by love, and, more importantly, what authentic love may actually be."
- Lee Barrett, Henry and Mary Stager Professor of Systematic Theology, Lancaster Theological Seminary
"Deidre Nicole Green has established herself as one of the leading feminist theological interpreters of Kierkegaard today. Without hiding from what makes Kierkegaard problematic, she leads us to a Kierkegaard few have known before: one who speaks of a maternal and non-violent God, resists hierarchy and anthropocentrism, and calls forth joy as the beating heart of the spiritual life. This book is an invitation to immerse oneself in the deep current of transformative love that flows through the many twisting channels of Kierkegaard's work."
- Carl S. Hughes, Texas Lutheran University
"More than mine a few promising moments in a dead thinkers thought, Deidre Green has given us one more reason to return to that lonely voice in the wilderness of nineteenth-century Christendom Søren Kierkegaard. Like St. Augustine before him Kierkegaard noticed women, but Greens book shows he went much further than that. His vision for Christian upbuilding, as Green explores in persuasive detail, becomes unintelligible apart from the courage, joy, and love he discovered in women whom God called, and still calls, to fullness of life."
- Ian Clausen, Villanova University
"Drawing Kierkegaards writings into conversation with feminist theorists and theologians, this important book illuminates their surprising relevance for feminist theological reflection. While examining Kierkegaards use of women biblical exemplars and distinctive reflections on God as mother, the exploration moves beyond mere commentary on Kierkegaard to show how his reflections on the self's joyful becoming offer a vision of Christian formation supportive of women's empowerment. It will be of interest not only to Kierkegaard scholars and feminist philosophers of religion, but also to non-academics concerned with feminist interpretations of Christian life and formation."
- Myka Lahai, Assistant Professor of Theology and Franciscan Studies, St. Bonaventure University
'[ This book] offers a deeply compelling account of Kierkegaards theology as a resource for feminist religious thought. Not only that, in a time when the progressive and conservative wings of Christianity seem to be pulling ever farther apart, Greens book is an important reminder and example of how Christian theology can move forward both in deep and faithful dialogue with its past without reproducing the mistakes it has made along the way.'
- Rev. Drew Collins, Lecturer of Humanities & Divinity and Associate Research Scholar, Yale Center for Faith & Culture
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