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jpwright87 's review for:
The Sickness unto Death
by Søren Kierkegaard
At the risk of sounding like a simpleton, let me just say that Kierkegaard gets it. He's so beyond Christian apologetics and modern emergent church complaints about "religion" that he leaves them looking like children. If you are the type to find yourself reading Rob Bell et al., read this (and also read some Leslie Newbigin). Kierkegaard certainly never makes Christianity easier to accept, and even emphasizes its offensive nature as well as its irrationality (he uses the word paradox). He affirms this difficult notion of faith while simultaneously criticizing current religion, upholding orthodoxy, and preaching a faith that would somewhat correctly be called "dangerous". Of course, this is a comment on all of Kierkegaard's writings and not just on this one book, but I continue to be amazed by this man as I continue through his works, if not because I agree with him then because his opinions are so heroically defiant of the sensibilities of others.