Provocations spiritual writings of kierkegaard biography

  • Provocations contains a little of everything from Kierkegaard's prodigious output: his famously cantankerous (yet wryly humorous) attacks on what he calls the.
  • Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a prolific 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian.
  • Provocations cap tures his spirit and core concerns without neglecting lesser themes, while preserving his style and readying the reader for his major works.

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    Provocations : spiritual writings of Kierkegaard

    Reviewer:gralan- favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite- July 19,
    Subject:Don't read this if you want to be comfortable in yourself

    "Take any words in the NT and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly say, How would I ever get on in the world? Herein lies the real place of [19th century] Christian Scholarship is the church's prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible"
    That quote alone shows the Bible is dangerous to folks comfortable in their own skin. We disciples, even if scholars Today, must live in Jesus' zip code, at the bottom with the broken, poor, and more. We are not to emulate the world in honor of Jesus, for such is oxymoronic at the least, and spiritually undead but not living at worst. Jesus said, "Many will come in that day saying "Lord, lord and I will tell them Depart from me you evildoers, I never knew you."
    A little knowledge is a big danger. Are you willing to die to yo

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    Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

    September 29,
    Provocations is essentially a Time Capsule of the last ten or so years of one dynamically alienated youngish man’s life, that changed the way modern intellectuals conceive religion.

    For they were the last dissenting years in the life of Soren Kierkegaard.

    He was during that time frame GALVANIZED into relentless, nonstop action against the soupy mediocrity of the uncommitted - lost in their own creature comforts - Ecclesiastics. He simply told them to practice what they preached…

    And he is therefore the father of modern existential dissent. The voice of the New and Clearheaded Thinking: and the icy breath of a 21st century uneasy CONSCIENCE.

    A prophet.

    Look at us now! While much has changed, much has not. But now we can clearly see the Bad Guys, thanks to him.

    Nowhere to run,
    Nowhere to hide -

    It was all sinking in back in the sixties, the time the mass catalysts for change raged like Martha and the Vandellas. Welc

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    Provocations: Spiritual Writings

    Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Søren Kierkegaard was the son of a wealthy middle-class merchant. He lived all his life on his inheritance, using it to finance his literary career. He studied theology at the University of Copenhagen, completing a master's thesis in on the topic of irony in Socrates. At about this time, he became engaged to a woman he loved, but he broke the engagement when he decided that God had destined him not to marry. The years to were a period of intense literary activity for Kierkegaard, in which he produced his "authorship," a series of writings of varying forms published under a series of fantastic pseudonyms. Parallel to these, he wrote a series of shorter Edifying Discourses, quasi-sermons published under his own name. As he later interpreted it in the posthumously published Point of View for My Work as an Author, the authorship was a systematic attempt to raise the question of what it means to be a Christian. Kierke

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