I See Men as Trees, Walking

""This book brings the insights of the great Christian writer Søren Kierkegaard into conversation with several stories in the Gospel of Mark. Doing so illuminates both what is going on in the lives of the characters who interact with Jesus as well as the point of the stories Jesus tells to shed light on what it means to follow Jesus in the modern world."" --John Sanders, professor emeritus of religious studies, Hendrix College ""Kierkegaard claimed that the Bible is not just a book that we read, but a book that reads us. It holds a mirror up to our selfhood and requires the hard work of self-examination. Bryan Christman's Kierkegaardian analysis of the Gospel of Mark does the same thing by inviting not only a deeper understanding of the biblical text, but a better relationship to one's own becoming."" --J. Aaron Simmons, author of Camping with Kierkegaard ""Kierkegaard once said that reading the Bible is not an exercise in bland scholarship but, rather, a spiritual practice, whereby one enters into an intimate, edifying relationship with God. Bryan Christman has taken this claim to heart--indeed, in striking fashion. His Kierkegaardian commentary on the Gospel of Mark is insightful and provocative, but it's also earnest and searching. It likely won't find its way into an historical-critical guide to the New Testament, but, like Kierkegaard himself, Christman is just fine with that."" --Christopher B. Barnett, professor of theology and religious studies, Villanova University