Christian Discourses

by Kierkegaard, Soren; Hong, Howard V.; Hong, Edna Hatlestad

• ISBN13: 9780691140780
• ISBN10: 0691140782
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-21
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

First published in 1848,Christian Discoursesis a quartet of pieces written and arranged in contrasting styles. Parts One and Three, "The Cares of the Pagans" and "Thoughts That Wound from Behind--for Upbuilding," serve as a polemical overture to Kierkegaard's collision with the established order of Christendom. Yet Parts Two and Four, "Joyful Notes in the Strife of Suffering" and "Discourses at the Communion on Fridays," are reassuring affirmations of the joy and blessedness of Christian life in a world of adversity and suffering. Written in ordinary language, the work combines simplicity and inwardness with reflection and presents crucial Christian concepts and presuppositions with unusual clarity.Kierkegaard continued in the pattern that he began with his first pseudonymous esthetic work,Either/Or, by pairingChristian DiscourseswithThe Crisis, an unsigned esthetic essay on contemporary Danish actress Joanne Luise Heiberg.

Author Biography

Howard V. Hong, the former Director of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, is the General Editor of Kierkegaard's Writings. Edna H. Hong is a poet, writer, and translator who has collaborated with Professor Hong on other English translations of Kierkegaard's work.

Table of Contents

Historical Introduction
The Cares of the Pagans	p. 3
Introduction	p. 9
The Care of Poverty	p. 13
The Care of Abundance	p. 23
The Care of Lowliness	p. 37
The Care of Loftiness	p. 48
The Care of Presumptuousness	p. 60
The Care of Self-Torment	p. 70
The Care of Indecisiveness, Vacillation, and Disconsolatenesp	p. 81
Pt. 2	p. 93
The Joy of It: That One Suffers Only Once But Is Victorious Eternally	p. 95
The Joy of It: That Hardship Does Not Take Away But Procures Hope	p. 106
The Joy of It: That the Poorer You Become the Richer You Are Able to Make Others	p. 114
The Joy of It: That the Weaker You Become the Stronger God Becomes in You	p. 124
The Joy of It: That What You Lose Temporally You Gain Eternally	p. 134
The Joy of It: That When I "Gain Everything" I Lose Nothing at All	p. 144
The Joy of It: That Adversity Is Prosperity	p. 150
Thoughts That Wound from Behind - for Upbuilding	p. 161
Watch Your Step When You Go to the House of the Lord	p. 163
"See, We Have Left Everything and Followed You; What Shall We Have?" (Matthew 19:27) - and What Shall We Have?	p. 176
All Things Must Serve Us for Good - When We Love God	p. 188
There Will Be the Resurrection of the Dead, of the Righteous - and of the Unrighteous	p. 202
We Are Closer to Salvation Now - Than When We Became Believers	p. 214
But It Is Blessed - to Suffer Mockery for a Good Cause	p. 222
He Was Believed in the World	p. 234
Discourses at the Communion on Fridays	p. 247
Preface	p. 249
Luke 22:15	p. 251
Matthew 11:28	p. 262
John 10:27	p. 268
I Corinthians 11:23	p. 275
II Timothy 2:12-13	p. 282
I John 3:20 289 VII Luke 24:51	p. 296
The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress	p. 301
Addendum: Phister as Captain Scipio	p. 327
Supplement	p. 345
Editorial Appendix	p. 429
Notes	p. 439
Bibliographical Note	p. 467
Index	p. 469
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