The latest issue of "Religion & Literature" (Notre Dame) is on my desk now.

It includes my article on the notions of reserve and indirect communication in the work of Isaac Williams and Søren Kierkegaard.

Thanks for sharing!

#theology #philosophy #kierkegaard #oxfordmovement #communication #currentreading

"The article claims that ultimately both approaches share a romantic vision. Confronted with an increasingly skeptical mid-nineteenth-century audience, Williams and Kierkegaard seem to suggest that religious truth-claims are best communicated poetically."

https://rotsinn.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/an-odd-couple-isaac-williams-and-soren-kierkegaard/

#theology #kierkegaard #oxfordmovement #isaacwilliams #literature #poetry

An Odd Couple: Isaac Williams and Søren Kierkegaard.

The poet, theologian, and member of the Oxford Movement Isaac Williams (1802–1865) and the Danish intellectual Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) never communicated with each other. However, they shared…

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Interested in Kierkegaard and/or the Oxford Movement?

My article "What an Odd Couple: Isaac Williams and Søren Kierkegaard" has just been published in "Religion & Literature" @notredame.bsky.social

https://religionandlit.nd.edu/issues/current-issue/

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Religion & Literature seeks to publish high-quality, innovative scholarship that explores the relations between two crucial human concerns: the religious impulse and the literary forms of any era, place, or language.

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