Figuring a fortunate fall -- Felix fragilitas in the concept of anxiety -- Felix fallibilitas in the sickness unto death -- Felix offensatio in practice in Christianity -- Felicitas : between cross and resurrection -- Postscript : Christian para/orthodoxy : toward a postmodern hamartiology
Summary
For more than 1500 years, the claim that Adam's Fall might be considered fortunate has been Christianity's most controversial and difficult idea. Jason Mahn's study examines Kierkegaard's para/orthodixical language of human fallibility and Christian sin