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Despair isn't something outside of us but rather a part of us. It can be healthy in that it is the pathway through which we come to faith.
If I were going to sum up Kierkegaard's incredibly dense (as in "heavy", not as in "thick-headed") book I would use be the above two sentences. Of course, there is a lot more to glean from this. I always love reading SK. Also, I always find him a difficult read. One could say that the cookies are definitely not on the lower shelf, but they sure are tasty.
If I were going to sum up Kierkegaard's incredibly dense (as in "heavy", not as in "thick-headed") book I would use be the above two sentences. Of course, there is a lot more to glean from this. I always love reading SK. Also, I always find him a difficult read. One could say that the cookies are definitely not on the lower shelf, but they sure are tasty.
A work of genius. Little (I’m sure) did Kierkegaard know how much this book would be needed 170 years after it was written. And it is in this way that Kierkegaard shows us how matters of true importance do not fade in their necessity or relevance. Fascinating, important, bold and essential.
Я більше не можу це витримувати, кидаю
Вся книга про копання автора в сутності гріха і грішності людини
Вся книга про копання автора в сутності гріха і грішності людини
Переливання з пустого в порожнє з страждальними копаннями в муках грішника
A remarkable effort at making his chosen faith into the most terrifying of all possible realities, and it still counts as pro-Christian. Perhaps the terror comes from being only half-understood. Perhaps it's just the skill of his writing. But what I like best about Kierkegaard is, even when he's writing in character, he's clearly not messing around.
I don't know if I'm really in despair, as Kierkegaard asserts, or if he's really got the insight into why. Telling him so would probably drive him crazy, if I understand the conclusion. I'll just keep thinking.
I don't know if I'm really in despair, as Kierkegaard asserts, or if he's really got the insight into why. Telling him so would probably drive him crazy, if I understand the conclusion. I'll just keep thinking.
Of course, book-burning has at this point a rather disreputable history, but I have to say, after now having read quite a few of Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous works, that I think modern Christianity would do well to go ahead and toss all the treacly self-helpish/12-steppish and (worst of all) hopelessly culture-bound success-oriented books of Rick Warren and Mark Driscoll and their ilk into the flames and return to Kierkegaard. What a renewal and what inspirational passionate humility might spring from such a commitment! What a challenge he still presents to so-called Christendom! (I imagine, with a joyous smile on my face, Sunday school classes from coast-to-coast wrestling with the implications of this man’s challenging work. Now that’s a Sunday school class! (Or small group study, if that’s more your speed.))
Not to say he has nothing to offer to the non-religious. On the contrary (as Sartre and Heidegger and so many others would agree), he offers much to think about both here and elsewhere. This work, The Sickness Unto Death seems especially important, frankly. Yes, it focuses on the (to some) overused word “sin” throughout, but the kernel that so excited later thinkers is here: we must avoid the despair of failing to will to be ourselves and similarly avoid the despair of defiantly willing to be ourselves.
Highly recommended.
Not to say he has nothing to offer to the non-religious. On the contrary (as Sartre and Heidegger and so many others would agree), he offers much to think about both here and elsewhere. This work, The Sickness Unto Death seems especially important, frankly. Yes, it focuses on the (to some) overused word “sin” throughout, but the kernel that so excited later thinkers is here: we must avoid the despair of failing to will to be ourselves and similarly avoid the despair of defiantly willing to be ourselves.
Highly recommended.
FINALLY DONE. Took 3 attempts over 2 years. His writing isn't the easiest to get through (maybe in part due to the translation??) and there's still much to understand ie his ideas in the context of Hegel, Plato's dialogues etc. But wow don't think I've seen someone's understanding of Christianity and faith and sin presented in this way before
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In paganism, man made God a man (the man-God); in Christianity God makes himself man (the God-man) - but in the infinite love of his compassionate grace he none the less makes one condition; he cannot do otherwise. Precisely this is Christ's grief: 'he cannot do otherwise'.
and a reminder that this is also an offence: The lowest form of offence, humanly speaking the most innocent, is to leave the whole issue of Christ undecided, to pronounce in effect: 'I don't presume to judge the matter; i do not believe, but I pass no judgement.'
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In paganism, man made God a man (the man-God); in Christianity God makes himself man (the God-man) - but in the infinite love of his compassionate grace he none the less makes one condition; he cannot do otherwise. Precisely this is Christ's grief: 'he cannot do otherwise'.
and a reminder that this is also an offence: The lowest form of offence, humanly speaking the most innocent, is to leave the whole issue of Christ undecided, to pronounce in effect: 'I don't presume to judge the matter; i do not believe, but I pass no judgement.'
If you think that that first paragraph is serious, you're not reading it critically enough. Don't let Anti-Climacus's sentences dance around your head! Don't let the irony go to waste.
challenging
reflective
slow-paced