ABSTRACT
Michalis K. Makrakis' book was published in 1983 and is based on a series of lectures that he gave in March of that year in the Goulandri-Horn Foundation. Makrakis' book was written in a period in which only a few books and studies on Kierkegaard had appeared in Greek by scholars such as Nissiotis, Kostaras, Theodorakopoulos, and Theodoridis. Makrakis studied theology at the University of Athens, where he later taught courses on "Psychology and Religion" and "Philosophy and Literature". He shows how necessity is an exemplary feature of essence, and freedom a unique characteristic of existence, while he emphasizes the importance of repetition as transcendence and freedom. According to Makrakis, the Church Fathers do not understand the necrosis of the senses and suffering as a state of death but, on the contrary, as a state of resurrection and rebirth.
