Thanks. Haven't watched either series, myself. The interiority/exteriority question has so many facets. Isn't it true to say that for SK, there is a kind of "spurious" interiority as well, right? Variously identified or classified as reflection without action (in Present Age), double-mindedness (in Purity of Heart), and a possessive and acquisitive temporal love (Works of Love), and we do have, in SK, an affirmation in each case of a life of "exteriority" that is redeemed on the other side of the eternal's encounter with inwardness (action informed from character, the purity of heart that wills one thing in truth, the love formed through the command to love the neighbor, etc.). I just think it's so valuable to retrieve all of that from the devotional writings to counter any narrative about SK that it's all about inwardness, introspection, etc.
It is certainly a nuanced topic in SK's authorship. I've written a good bit on this actually (see, e.g., the last three chapters of KIERKEGAARD, PIETISM AND HOLINESS). But this wasn't so much an attempt to dig into SK's position as to say that the inner/outer distinction crops up, provocatively, in these two series.
yes! totally! a person can only do so much in a blog! My public library has an ebook of KIERKEGAARD, PIETISM AND HOLINESS, I'm glad to say. I don't have access to my theological school's library anymore.
Thanks. Haven't watched either series, myself. The interiority/exteriority question has so many facets. Isn't it true to say that for SK, there is a kind of "spurious" interiority as well, right? Variously identified or classified as reflection without action (in Present Age), double-mindedness (in Purity of Heart), and a possessive and acquisitive temporal love (Works of Love), and we do have, in SK, an affirmation in each case of a life of "exteriority" that is redeemed on the other side of the eternal's encounter with inwardness (action informed from character, the purity of heart that wills one thing in truth, the love formed through the command to love the neighbor, etc.). I just think it's so valuable to retrieve all of that from the devotional writings to counter any narrative about SK that it's all about inwardness, introspection, etc.
It is certainly a nuanced topic in SK's authorship. I've written a good bit on this actually (see, e.g., the last three chapters of KIERKEGAARD, PIETISM AND HOLINESS). But this wasn't so much an attempt to dig into SK's position as to say that the inner/outer distinction crops up, provocatively, in these two series.
yes! totally! a person can only do so much in a blog! My public library has an ebook of KIERKEGAARD, PIETISM AND HOLINESS, I'm glad to say. I don't have access to my theological school's library anymore.