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Participation in Grace: Kierkegaard’s Corrective to Luther

Content Provider	SAGE Publishing
Author	Watts, Daniel
Copyright Year	2022
Abstract	I offer an interpretation of the target of Søren Kierkegaard’s corrective to Luther as not merely cultural Lutheranism but Luther's very conception of what it means to be receptive to grace. On this interpretation, while Kierkegaard affirms that salvation is by grace alone, and through faith alone, he thinks that Luther errs when he conceives of salvation as a process in relation to which the believer is merely passive. Instead, in Kierkegaard’s view, receptivity to grace involves a distinctive, middle-voiced, form of human agency in which the believer learns to acknowledge her need for grace. With reference to Kierkegaard’s discourses on patience, and their thematic proximity to the spirituality of the Philokalia, I illustrate this conception of active-passivity and show how it is compatible with an uncompromising Lutheran emphasis on human powerlessness. With reference also to his insistence of the irreducible importance of the participant’s perspective, I further draw out from Kierkegaard an account of why the temptation may arise to erroneously interpret the core tenets of Luther's teaching, in the mode of a theory of soteriological passivity.
Related Links	https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/09539468221107522?download=true
Starting Page	765
Ending Page	785
Page Count	21
ISSN	09539468
Issue Number	4
Volume Number	35
Journal	Studies in Christian Ethics (SCE)
e-ISSN	17455235
DOI	10.1177/09539468221107522
Language	English
Publisher	Sage Publications UK
Publisher Date	2022-06-13
Publisher Place	London
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	© The Author(s) 2022
Subject Keyword	humility Neptic grace Luther Kierkegaard patience passivity agency
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Religious Studies

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