George Pattison is Lecturer in the Faculty of Theology in Arhus University. He was previously Parish Priest and Dean of Chapel at King's College Cambridge. He has published and broadcast on theology, philosophy and the visual arts. His books include Kierkegaard: The Aesthetic and the Religion(SCM Press, 1999), The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to the Later Heidegger (Routledge, 2000) and A Short Course in the Philosophy of Religion (SCM Press, 2001).

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Kierkegaard's right hand; Chapter 2 The human condition; Chapter 3 Dialectics, phenomenology and the sublime; Chapter 4 Before God; Chapter 5 The language of upbuilding; Chapter 6 The rhetorics of the upbuilding discourses; Chapter 7 Building up love's ruins; Chapter 8 Love's witness;