The Moment and Late Writings

by Soren Kierkegaard

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

, 1998

Overview

Kierkegaard, a poet of ideals and practitioner of the indirect method, also had a direct and polemical side. He revealed this in several writings throughout his career, culminating in The Moment, his attack against the established ecclesiastical order. Kierkegaard was moved to criticize the church by his differences with Bishop Mynster, Primate of the Church of Denmark. Although Mynster saw in Kierkegaard a complement to himself and his outlook, Kierkegaard challenged Mynster to acknowledge the emptying and estheticizing of Christianity that had occurred in modern Christendom. For three years Kierkegaard was silent, waiting. When Mynster died, he was memorialized as “an authentic truth-witness” in the “holy chain of truth-witnesses that stretches through the ages from the days of the apostles.” This struck Kierkegaard as blasphemous and inspired him to write a series of articles in Fædrelandet, which he followed with ten numbers of the pamphlet The Moment. This volume includes the articles from Fædrelandet, all numbers of The Moment, and several other late pieces of Kierkegaard’s writing.

Product Details

• Title: The Moment and Late Writings
• Author: Soren Kierkegaard
• Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings
• Volume: XXIII
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Print Publication Date: 1998
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christianity and culture › Controversial literature; Danske folkekirke › Controversial literature; Mynster, Jakob Peter, 1775-1854; Lutheran Church › Denmark--Controversial literature; Christianity and culture › Denmark--History--19th century; Denmark › Church history--19th century
• ISBNs: 9781400832415, 0691032262, 0691140812, 9780691032269, 9780691140810, 1400832411
• Resource ID: LLS:KKGWRTGS23
• Resource Type: text.monograph.church-history
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-05T00:08:09Z

About Soren Kierkegaard

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855) was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel; he was also critical of the state and practice of Christianity in his lifetime, primarily that of The Church of Denmark. He is widely considered to be the first existentialist.