"Craig Hefner shows a mastery of Kierkegaard's writings and Kierkegaardian scholarship. To this literature, he brings a biblically informed speculative engagement with one of the most important debates of our time, namely the debate over divine immutability. Addressing Barthians and Thomists, Hefner argues that Kierkegaard offers a way of engaging God's immutability without relying on either metaphysical or antimetaphysical logic. At stake is the possibility of reintegrating the fragmented self and grounding the meaningfulness of history. This is an important book!"

"Rarely, in contemporary discourse, is the immutability of God wielded for spiritual insights, but this is precisely what Hefner discovers in the work of Søren Kierkegaard. Mining the depths of Kierkegaard's thought to retrieve his existentially profound insights, Hefner shows how Kierkegaard's understanding of immutability serves as the ground for the integration of the human self. Far from an abstract notion, immutability serves as the guiding light breaking through the present darkness of our despair. A significant and profound study, I highly recommend it!"

"For centuries, Western philosophy and theology took it as axiomatic that God is immutable. 'It is evident,' Thomas Aquinas wrote in the Summa Theologiae, 'that it is impossible for God to be in any way changeable.' Yet in modernity, this long-held belief has come under attack for various reasons. Is it unthinkable, then, for a modern person to adhere to the doctrine of divine immutability? In this important and thought-provoking study, Craig A. Hefner draws on one of the most essential modern thinkers—Søren Kierkegaard—to make a case for God's changelessness. In doing so, Hefner shows that Christian theology can successfully retrieve classical teaching and yet speak to modern concerns."

"Readers commonly engage Kierkegaard as a provocateur against all those who are smug and comfortable in their Christianity (and he doesn't disappoint!), but Hefner surprises us with a robust engagement with Kierkegaard the theologian. Here we encounter the Great Dane as an unexpected conversation partner in current theological discussions about God's immutability. Metaphysical accounts are often pitted against antimetaphysical ones in recent debates, but Hefner retrieves Kierkegaard to show another way forward: a biblical and theological case for a classical definition of God's immutability but without metaphysics. This is retrieval theology at its best!"