ABSTRACT

Julia Watkin's Kierkegaard is a volume in the Outstanding Christian Thinkers series, edited by Brian Davies OP. As a member of this series, Watkin's text focuses on the specifically Christian aspects of Soren Kierkegaard's authorship. The Outstanding Christian Thinkers series sets the overall agenda for Watkin's text and helps to give it its particular shape. Watkin's approach, in contrast, attempts to interpret Kierkegaard more within his own context. Watkin's text differs from Bruce H. Kirmmse's in some of its contemporary aims. As Watkin sets herself the task of bringing Kierkegaard's theology to the fore, what occurs in the accomplishment of that task is primarily an exegesis of the implicit theological presuppositions of Kierkegaard's authorship. Watkin's elucidation of the theological background assumed throughout Kierkegaard's authorship is notable both for its brevity and for its explanatory power. Watkin thus extracts this background commitment from a number of different works.