Spiritual Writings

by Kierkegaard, Soren; Pattison, George

• ISBN13: 9780061875991
• ISBN10: 0061875996
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-09
• Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Summary

In this new collection, Oxford theologian George Pattison translates and selects SØren Kierkegaard's previously neglected writings on spirituality-works that greatly deepen our understanding of the influential thinker. In philosophy and literature, Kierkegaard (By far the most profound thinker of the nineteenth century”-Ludwig Wittgenstein) is generally perceived as epitomizing existential angst. However, there is much more to Kierkegaard than the popular image of the melancholy Dane” or the iconoclastic critic of established Christendom. Alongside the pseudonymous books for which he is largely known, Kierkegaard also wrote many devotional works, which he called upbuilding” or edifying” discourses. Taken as a whole, these writings offer something very different from the popular view-they embody a spirituality grounded in a firm sense of human life as a divine gift.

Author Biography

Sren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was born in Copenhagen, DenmarK. His many works include The Present Age and Works of Love, both available from Harper Perennial Modern Thought. George Pattison is Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and a canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
A Note on the Translation	p. xxix
The Gift: ôEvery Good and Every Perfect Gift is From Aboveö
Understanding the Gift	p. 3
Evil and the Gift	p. 23
Giving and Receiving	p. 41
ôThe Lord gave, the Lord took away, blessed be the name of the Lordö	p. 63
Creation: What We Learn From the Lilies and the Birds
Be Satisfied with Being Human	p. 85
The Glory of Being Human	p. 113
The Blessedness Promised to Being Human	p. 135
The Anxieties We Invent Ourselves	p. 151
The Anxiety Caused by Being in Two Minds	p. 165
Silence, Obedience, and Joy	p. 179
Love: At the Feet of the Savior
The Look of Love	p. 227
Love and Sin	p. 243
Learn from a Woman	p. 255
A Parable of Love	p. 269
Luke 7:47	p. 279
1 Peter 4:8	p. 289
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