Christology as Critique

“Alfsvåg’s work is a further contribution to the deconstruction of modernity. It draws on the critical and constructive potential of premodern insights deployed by Cusanus and Luther and retrieved by Hamann and Kierkegaard. These insights, in line with Scripture and Chalcedonian Christology, are then applied to key theological problems today. The book, which I highly recommend, is accessible to the general reader but written for the scholar.”


—Jeffrey Silcock, Australian Lutheran College / University of Divinity





“In this volume Knut Alfsvåg tests the relationship between Christianity, and more specifically Christology, and other modes of recent thought by a deep yet focused examination of the relevant positions of Nicolas of Cusa, Martin Luther, Johann Hamann, and Søren Kierkegaard . . . Ultimately, Alfsvåg argues that we would do well to consider the ties to created realities that ground the arguments of the early church as well as these select theologians, as we consider our own scientific, philosophical, and theological positions.”


—Tim Dost, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri





“What is the relationship between the world and the human? Against the irrationality of modernism this study proffers a surprising answer: the indispensability of Christology. Drawing on a line of counter-cultural thinkers, Alfsvag draws out the implications for our time in stimulating fashion. This is a study of gravitas, with far-reaching significance.”


—Gordon L. Isaac, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary