The books in this series are designed to introduce laymen to theologians who dominate Christian thought today.

Combining brevity with depth and simplicity with scholarship, they help men and women come to grips with trends in contemporary theology.

Robert Lee Perkins is now Chairman of the Department of Philosophy in the University of South Alabama, U.S.A. Besides studying at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, and at Indiana University, where he gained his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, he also spent one year at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews on philosophy.

Table of Contents

1. LIFE

2. THOUGHT

(i) The Christocentric Focus of Kierkegaard's Theo- logical Reflection

• The Temptation of Humanism and its Alter- native: Socrates and the Teacher
• The Objective Reality of the Incarnation: The Absolute Paradox
• The Relation of History and Faith Philosophical Implications of Revelation

(ii) The Anthropocentric Focus of Kierkegaard's Theological Reflection

• In the Beginning-Adam
• From Anxiety to the Forms of Despair
• From Exposition to Existence and to Grace

3. SIGNIFICANCE

• Principal works by Kierkegaard available in English