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The moment and late writings / by Søren Kierkegaard ; edited and translated with introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong.
Van Pelt Library BR115.C8 K544 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.
- Series:
- Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855. English. 1978 ; Works. 23.
- Kierkegaard's writings ; 23
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mynster, Jakob Peter, 1775-1854.
- Mynster, Jakob Peter.
- Danske folkekirke--Controversial literature.
- Danske folkekirke.
- Christianity and culture--Controversial literature.
- Christianity and culture.
- Lutheran Church--Denmark--Controversial literature.
- Lutheran Church.
- Christianity and culture--Denmark--History--19th century.
- Church history.
- History.
- Controversial literature.
- Denmark--Church history--19th century.
- Denmark.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 678 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- For Kierkegaard, poet of ideals and practitioner of the indirect method, ideality also had a direct and polemical side. He revealed this in four episodes: the early criticism of Hans Christian Andersen in From the Papers of One Still Living; the Corsair affair with Meir Goldschmidt on destructive anonymous journalism; the exchange with Andreas G. Rudelbach on the politicizing reformation of the Church; and the subject of the present volume: his "attack on Christendom" against the established ecclesiastical order and the formalism of culture-accommodated Christianity.
- Kierkegaard was moved to criticize the church by his differences with Bishop Mynster, Primate of the Church of Denmark. Although Mynster saw in Kierkegaard a complement to himself and his outlook, Kierkegaard sought from him a simple and honest confession that would clear the air by acknowledging the emptying and estheticizing of Christianity that had occurred in Christendom. For three years Kierkegaard was silent, waiting. When Mynster died, his eventual successor, Hans Lassen Martensen, characterized Mynster in his memorial sermon as "an authentic truth-witness" in the "holy chain of truth-witnesses that stretches through the ages from the days of the apostles". This struck Kierkegaard as blasphemous and inspired him to write a series of articles in Fedrelandet, which he followed with ten numbers of the pamphlet The Moment. Nine numbers appeared during the last ten months of Kierkegaard's life; the tenth was awaiting publication when he died. This volume includes the articles from Fedrelandet, all numbers of The Moment, and several other late pieces of Kierkegaard's writing.
- Contents:
- Was Bishop Mynster a "truth-witness," one of "the authentic truth-witnesses" ...
- There the matter rests!
- A challenge to me from Pastor Paludan-Müller
- The point at issue with Bishop Martensen ...
- Two new truth-witnesses
- At Bishop Mynster's death
- Is this Christian worship or is it making a fool of God?
- What must be done ...
- The religious situation
- A thesis ...
- Salt ...
- What do I want?
- On the occasion of an anonymous proposal to me in no. 79 of this newspaper
- Would it be best now to "stop ringing the alarm"?
- Christianity with a royal certificate and Christianity without a royal certificate
- What cruel punishment!
- A result
- A monologue
- Concerning a fatuous pompousness in regard to me ...
- For the new edition of Practice in Christianity
- This must be said; so let it be said
- That Bishop Martensen's silence is ...
- The moment, 1-2
- What Christ judges of official Christianity
- The moment, 3-7
- The changelessness of God
- The moment, 8-9
- The moment, 10.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [623]-[655]) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691032262
- OCLC:
- 37373559
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