Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses

by Kierkegaard, Soren

• ISBN13: 9780691020877
• ISBN10: 0691020876
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-06-03
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

There is much to be learned philosophically from this volume, but philosophical instruction was not Kierkegaard's aim here, except in the broad sense of self-knowledge and deepened awareness. Indicating the intention of the discourses, the titles include "The Expectancy of Faith," "Love Will Hide a Multitude of Sins," "Strengthening in the Inner Being," "To Gain One's Soul in Patience," "Patience in Expectancy," and "Against Cowardliness." In tone and substance these works are in accord with the concluding words of encouragement inEither/Or, which was paired with the first volume of discourses: "Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it--and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you--for only the truth that builds up is truth for you."

Table of Contents

Historical Introduction	p. ix
Two Upbuilding Discourses (1843)	p. 1
The Expectancy of Faith	p. 7
Every Good and Every Perfect Gift Is from Above	p. 31
Three Upbuilding Discourses (1843)	p. 49
Love Will Hide a Multitude of Sins	p. 55
Love Will Hide a Multitude of Sins	p. 69
Strengthening in the Inner Being	p. 79
Four Upbuilding Discourses (1843)	p. 103
The Lord Gave, and the Lord Took Away; Blessed Be the Name of the Lord	p. 109
Every Good Gift and Every Perfect Gift Is from Above	p. 125
Every Good Gift and Every Perfect Gift Is from Above	p. 141
To Gain One's Soul in Patience	p. 159
Two Upbuilding Discourses (1844)	p. 177
To Preserve One's Soul in Patience	p. 181
Patience in Expectancy	p. 205
Three Upbuilding Discourses (1844)	p. 227
Think about Your Creator in the Days of Your Youth	p. 233
The Expectancy of an Eternal Salvation	p. 253
He Must Increase; I Must Decrease	p. 275
Four Upbuilding Discourses (1844)	p. 291
To Need God Is a Human Being's Highest Perfection	p. 297
The Thorn in the Flesh	p. 327
Against Cowardliness	p. 347
One Who Prays Aright Struggles in Prayer and Is Victorious--in That God Is Victorious	p. 377
Supplement	p. 403
Key to References	p. 404
Original Title Pages	p. 406
Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses	p. 423
Editorial Appendix	p. 491
Acknowledgments	p. 493
Collation of the Six Volumes of Upbuilding Discourses in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works	p. 495
Notes	p. 503
Bibliographical Note	p. 539
Index	p. 541
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