Ryan S. Kemp is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College, USA. He is the author of The Routledge Guidebook to Kierkegaard and Either/Or (2019).Jordan M. Rodgers is Moreau Post-Doctoral Fellow in the McGowan Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility at King's College, Wiles-Barre, USA.

Both engaging and illuminating, this book adds richness and reality to the most spiritually challenging philosophical questions of our times. It gives life to the possibility that the old quarrel between philosophy and poetry may be, after all, a quarrel between lovers.

• Chapter 1 – Introduction Chapter 2 – The Life-Denial Critique of Christianity: Feuerbach & NietzscheChapter 3 – Housekeeping: Lessons in Life-DenialChapter 4 – Gilead: More Beauty Than Our Eyes Can BearChapter 5 – O Sinner, Come HomeChapter 6 – Jack: A Glorious PresenceChapter 7 – Lila: More Life Than We Can BearChapter 8 – Conclusion: Our Fantastic ConditionWorks Cited Index