Dr Simon D. Podmore is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Liverpool Hope University. He is author of Kierkegaard and the Self Before God: Anatomy of the Abyss (Indiana University Press) and numerous articles and essays in philosophical, pastoral, and systematic theology. He is also Secretary of the Soren Kierkegaard Society of the United Kingdom.

... Podmore offers a groundbreaking development in kierkegaard Studies that shores up the constructive and inter-confessional work that can be done with the theological aspects of Kierkegaard's writings... Podmore rightly argues that in solidarity, Kierkegaard offers his theology of spiritual trial as a hope filled consolation to those who are otherwise tempted to despair...

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction - Struggling with God: Towards a Kierkegaardian Theology of Spiritual Trial1. The Secret Struggle: Lost in Translation 2. The Old Devotional Books: Anfechtung in Tauler and the Theologia Deutsch3. Melancholia Coram Deo: Luther's Theology of Anfechtung4. God's Fire in the Soul: Anfechtung in Arndt and Boehme5. Before God in Secret: Temptation and Spiritual Trial in Kierkegaard I6. To the God-forsaken God: Temptation and Spiritual Trial in Kierkegaard I7. The Desire of Spirit8. The Temptation of Spiritual TrialIndex

Dr Simon D. Podmore is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Liverpool Hope University. He is author of Kierkegaard and the Self Before God: Anatomy of the Abyss (Indiana University Press) and numerous articles and essays in philosophical, pastoral, and systematic theology. He is also Secretary of the Soren Kierkegaard Society of the United Kingdom.

... Podmore offers a groundbreaking development in kierkegaard Studies that shores up the constructive and inter-confessional work that can be done with the theological aspects of Kierkegaard's writings... Podmore rightly argues that in solidarity, Kierkegaard offers his theology of spiritual trial as a hope filled consolation to those who are otherwise tempted to despair...

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction - Struggling with God: Towards a Kierkegaardian Theology of Spiritual Trial1. The Secret Struggle: Lost in Translation 2. The Old Devotional Books: Anfechtung in Tauler and the Theologia Deutsch3. Melancholia Coram Deo: Luther's Theology of Anfechtung4. God's Fire in the Soul: Anfechtung in Arndt and Boehme5. Before God in Secret: Temptation and Spiritual Trial in Kierkegaard I6. To the God-forsaken God: Temptation and Spiritual Trial in Kierkegaard I7. The Desire of Spirit8. The Temptation of Spiritual TrialIndex

Dr Simon D. Podmore is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Liverpool Hope University. He is author of Kierkegaard and the Self Before God: Anatomy of the Abyss (Indiana University Press) and numerous articles and essays in philosophical, pastoral, and systematic theology. He is also Secretary of the Soren Kierkegaard Society of the United Kingdom.

... Podmore offers a groundbreaking development in kierkegaard Studies that shores up the constructive and inter-confessional work that can be done with the theological aspects of Kierkegaard's writings... Podmore rightly argues that in solidarity, Kierkegaard offers his theology of spiritual trial as a hope filled consolation to those who are otherwise tempted to despair...

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction - Struggling with God: Towards a Kierkegaardian Theology of Spiritual Trial1. The Secret Struggle: Lost in Translation 2. The Old Devotional Books: Anfechtung in Tauler and the Theologia Deutsch3. Melancholia Coram Deo: Luther's Theology of Anfechtung4. God's Fire in the Soul: Anfechtung in Arndt and Boehme5. Before God in Secret: Temptation and Spiritual Trial in Kierkegaard I6. To the God-forsaken God: Temptation and Spiritual Trial in Kierkegaard I7. The Desire of Spirit8. The Temptation of Spiritual TrialIndex