Soren Kierkegaard

“Then That Poet Suddenly Transformed Himself” To counteract the inertia of stupidity that is built into the media themselves, Ki ...

of ancient Rome. “So in the end it becomes a sort of pleasure (correspond- ing to the pleasure experienced by spectators when gl ...

and took out a book called ‘The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.’” Kierkegaard’s words border on the utterly p ...

Out with Inwardness! Kierkegaard had taken on his character, had put aside all forms of indirect communication, and would no lon ...

an entire city with cholera, and one thousand perjurers are more than enough to infect an entire society with scabies.” The chol ...

cation, slander, gluttony, et cetera: Official Christianity and its worship of God is infinitely more loathsome to him.” Kierkeg ...

business partnership, the pastors are especially keen on two things: “(a) that people call themselves Christians—the bigger the ...

of the Savior, the apostle, the witness to the truth; this is what the pastor lives on; this is what he eats, feeding them to hi ...

is to be presented to the congregation. The Dean whose job it is to do this is more than an ordinary person; he not only has... ...

sketch of a quite worldly young man who—God only knows why—had decided to have his child baptized, Kierkegaard recommended that ...

tender arms have come to encircle a bit too much. So on behalf of Chris- tianity, one must ask that the females to whom these te ...

lighting, roads, pavement, et cetera, et cetera—there is also eternal blessed- ness in the hereafter, a need that the state also ...

tion come: At that very instant, Christianity will once again come into existence.” Kierkegaard’s antihistoricism was also bound ...

Kierkegaard would not shrink from “making use of any means whatever in order to injure his opponents.” On Palm Sunday 1855, Mrs. ...

Son—that we know no more of true Christianity than does an unbelieving Jew. But, far from frightening us, it should rather make ...

“Pastor P. Chr. Kierkegaard, Lic. Theol., My Brother” The confrontation between Kierkegaard and Grundtvig was particularly unple ...

have been carrying on a public conversation about the existential for some time now, have not taken any notice of this truth, or ...

And then, almost compulsively, the whole story is retold yet again: that he, Søren Aabye, had selflessly given Denmark an author ...

Oehlenschla ̈ger, and now its greatest prose stylist in me. Denmark won’t last long now!” Of course, this was intended as a joke ...

Either/Ortwelve years earlier. Kierkegaard’s lapidary style, his satire, his paradoxical provocations and well-turned points, hi ...