The long period from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century supplied numerous sources for Kierkegaard's thought in any number of different fields. The present volume covers the period from the birth of Savonarola in 1452 through the beginning of the nineteenth century and into Kierkegaard's own time. The Danish thinker read authors representing vastly different traditions and time periods, and a diverse range of genres including philosophy, theology, literature, drama and music. The present volume consists of three tomes that are intended to cover Kierkegaard's sources in these different fields of thought. Tome II is dedicated to the wealth of theological and religious sources from the beginning of the Reformation to Kierkegaard's own day.

Contents: Abraham a SanctaClara: an aphoristic encyclopedia of Christian wisdom, Peter Å ajda; Johann Arndt: the pietist impulse in Kierkegaard and17th-century Lutheran devotional literature, Joseph Ballan; Ludovicus Blosius: a frightful satire on Christendom, Peter Å ajda; Jacob Böhme; the ambiguous legacy of speculative passion, Lee C. Barrett; Hans Adolph Brorson: Danish pietism's greatest hymn writer and his relation to Kierkegaard, Christopher B. Barnett; John Calvin: Kierkegaard and the question of the law's 3rd use, David Yoon-Jung Kim; Erasmus of Rotterdam: Kierkegaard's hints at a Christian humanist, Finn Gredal Jensen; FranÃ
ois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon: clearing the way for The Sickness Unto Death, Peter Å ajda; August Hermann Francke: Kierkegaard on the kernel and the husk of pietist theology, Joseph Ballan; Thomas Kingo: an investigation of the poet's and hymnist's impact on Kierkegaard, Christopher B. Barnett; Martin Luther: reform, secularization, and the question of his 'true successor', David Yoon-Jung Kim and Joel D.S. Rasmussen; Hieronimus Savonarola: Kierkegaard's model for the blood-witness, Ivan Z. Sÿrensen; Gerhard Tersteegen: Kierkegaard's reception of a man of 'noble piety and simple wisdom', Christopher B. Barnett; Indexes.