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Author Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Title "The moment" and late writings / Søren Kierkegaard ; edited and translated with introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 678 pages)
Series Kierkegaard's writings ; 23
Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855. Works. English. 1978 ; 23.
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
Summary Kierkegaard, a poet of ideals and practitioner of the indirect method, also had a direct and polemical side. He revealed this in several writings throughout his career, culminating in The Moment, his attack against the established ecclesiastical order. 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 challenged Mynster to acknowledge the emptying and estheticizing of Christianity that had occurred in modern Christendom. For three years Kierkegaard was silent, waiting. When Mynster died, he was memorialized 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 Fædrelandet, which he followed with ten numbers of the pamphlet The Moment. This volume includes the articles fromFædrelandet, all numbers of The Moment, and several other late pieces of Kierkegaard's writing
Notes This translation originally published: 1998
Second printing, and first paperback printing, 2009 --Title page verso
This book comprises a series of articles (1854-1855) from the newspaper, Fædrelandet; followed by the pamphlet, The Moment (all except no. 10) published during the last ten months of Kierkegaarde's life; and a number of separate division pieces
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the Danish
Subject Mynster, Jakob Peter, 1775-1854.
SUBJECT Mynster, Jakob Peter, 1775-1854 fast
Subject Danske folkekirke -- Controversial literature
SUBJECT Danske folkekirke fast
Subject Christianity and culture.
Lutheran Church -- Denmark -- Controversial literature
Christianity and culture -- Denmark -- History -- 19th century
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
PHILOSOPHY -- Religious.
Christianity and culture
Lutheran Church
SUBJECT Denmark -- Church history -- 19th century
Subject Denmark
Genre/Form Church history
Controversial literature
History
Form Electronic book
Author Hong, Howard V. (Howard Vincent), 1912-2010.
Hong, Edna H. (Edna Hatlestad), 1913-2007.
ISBN 9781400832415
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