Provocations : Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

by Kierkegaard, Soren; Moore, Charles E.

• ISBN13: 9780874869811
• ISBN10: 0874869811
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

Provocations contains a little of everything from Kierkegaard's prodigious output: his famously cantankerous (yet wryly humorous) attacks on what he calls the "mediocre shell" of conventional Christianity, his brilliantly pithy parables, his wise (and witty) sayings. Most significantly it brings to a new generation a man whose writings pare away the fluff of modern spirituality to reveal the basics of the Christ-centered life: decisiveness, obedience, and recognition of the truth. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
To Will One Thing	p. 1
Dare to Decide
Either/Or
Under the Spell of Good Intentions
The Greatest Danger
The Task
Against the Crowd
Suspending the Ethical
To Need God Is Perfection
Purity of Heart
Emissaries from Eternity
God Has No Cause
An Eternity in Which to Repent
Truth and the Passion of Inwardness	p. 49
Truth Is the Way
The Road Is How
Two Ways of Reflection
The Weight of Inwardness
Christ Has No Doctrine
Faith: The Matchless Lack of Logic
Passion and Paradox
The Folly of Proving God's Existence
Answering Doubt
Alone With God's Word
Followers not Admirers
Fear and Trembling
The Works of Love	p. 91
God's Triumphant Love
Neighbor Love
The Greater Love
Love the Person You See
Love's Hidden Need
Love Builds Up
Love's Like-for-Like
Love Abides - Forever!
When Love Is Secure
Anxiety and the Gospel of Suffering	p. 125
Nebuchadnezzar
The War Within
Sickness Unto Death
The Dynamics of Despair
Consider the Lilies
Behold the Birds of the Air
The Royal Coachman
The Invitation
When the Burden Is Light
A Dangerous Schooling
To Suffer Christianly
Christian Collisions	p. 169
The Offense
What Says the Fire Chief?
Christianity Does Not Exist
What Madness
The Echo Answers
The Tax Collector
Gospel for the Poor
How God Relates Inversely
Undercover Clergy
"First the Kingdom of God"
Childish Orthodoxy
Kill the Commentators!
Church Militant
Thoughts That Radically Cure: Excerpts and Aphorisms	p. 209
Anxiety and Despair
Becoming Christian
The Bible
Christ
Christendom and Counterfeit Christianity
The Cross
The Crowd
Decisiveness
Doctrine and Theology
Doubt and Skepticism
The Eternal
Existence and the Existential
Faith and Reason
Following Jesus
Forgiveness
Freedom
God
God's Love
Grace
The Human Condition
The Individual
Inwardness and Subjectivity
Love
Obedience
Passion
Politics and the State
Prayer
Preaching and Proclamation
Purity
Repentance
Sacrifice and Self-Denial
Silence and Solitude
Sin
Spiritual Trial
Suffering
Tribulation and Persecution
Truth
Venturing and Risk
Witness
Works
Workship
Index of Parables and Stories	p. 417
Sources	p. 419
Annotated Bibliography	p. 427
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