ABSTRACT
Edward Mooney's Knights of Faith and Resignation was published by State University of New York Press in July 1991, in both hardcover and paperback editions. In Mooney's view, Abraham recognizes that there is no rational way to adjudicate these competing duties such that ethics will be satisfied. It is intriguing, then, that Mooney, having argued that such intractable dilemmas exist, nevertheless maintains that Soren Kierkegaard offers a rational basis for making sense of the difficulties raised by the text. Indeed, Mooney does not believe the tension is finally irresolvable: "The most satisfactory and complete reading takes the teleological suspension to describe a moment of transitional conflict." In the final analysis, Mooney's book stands as a landmark in Kierkegaard studies as an original and thought-provoking piece of scholarship, but also by anyone who is interested in the themes found in Fear and Trembling and wants to delve more deeply into the possibilities contained in Kierkegaard's profound little book.
