Soren Kierkegaard

“Christianity Is the Invention of Satan” Kierkegaard was certainly not at risk of being infected by the optimism of his times. O ...

and with respect to being a human being in a straightforward sense.” This had been heard previously, which is clear from the met ...

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The Church of Our Lady. In the distance, at the end of Nørregade is the first building on Dyrkøb. This is where Kierkegaard ren ...

Jakob Peter Mynster. “You have no idea what sort of a poisonous plant Mynster was,” the dying Kierkegaard said to his friend Em ...

Hans Lassen Martensen. “I recognized immediately that his was not an ordinary intellect but that he also had an irresistible ur ...

Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig. Although Kierkegaard admired Grundtvig’s legendary erudition, the weight of his personality ...

Peter Christian Kierkegaard. Irresolution almost seems to shine forth from the eyes of Peter Christian Kierkegaard, whose fate ...

Berlingske politiske og Avertissements-Tidende, Thursday, May 24, 1855. Even in a greatly magnified selective enlargement, the ...

H. P. Hansen’s drawing from 1854. That same year Kierkegaard wrote that “There is no one so shrewd that he can hit upon a form ...

Berlingske politiske og Avertissements-Tidende, Friday morning, November 16, 1855. Peter Christian Kierkegaard’s obituary for h ...

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1854 The Death of a Witness to the Truth “Now he is dead. It would have very desirable if, at the end of his life, he could have ...

in the ensuing days. And on behalf of the Copenhagen Clerical Conference, Archdeacon Tryde announced inBerlingske Tidendethat “m ...

all the trumpet blasts from his rented rooms. Likewise, he would have had the opportunity to read about the event inBerlingske T ...

“There are still more crises in store, because the corruption and the spread of amorality that is now under way cannot come to a ...

despite the considerable sympathy they had felt for one another, there had been differences between them. “Whether or not I make ...

residence, and now I am sitting at my wor ktable, the place where Mynster spent his many blessed years. The other evening I sat ...

So much for Mynster. As for Martensen, Kierkegaard maintained that one of the more important motives behind hismemorial sermonha ...