Christian Discourses, The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress

by Soren Kierkegaard

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

, 1997

Overview

First published in 1848, Christian Discourses is a quartet of pieces written and arranged in contrasting styles. Parts One and Three, “The Cares of the Pagans” and “Thoughts That Wound from Behind—for Upbuilding,” serve as a polemical overture to Kierkegaard’s collision with the established order of Christendom. Yet Parts Two and Four, “Joyful Notes in the Strife of Suffering” and “Discourses at the Communion on Fridays,” are reassuring affirmations of the joy and blessedness of Christian life in a world of adversity and suffering. Written in ordinary language, the work combines simplicity and inwardness with reflection and presents crucial Christian concepts and presuppositions with unusual clarity. Kierkegaard continued in the pattern that he began with his first pseudonymous esthetic work, Either/Or, by pairing Christian Discourses with The Crisis, an unsigned esthetic essay on contemporary Danish actress Joanne Luise Heiberg.

Product Details

• Title: Christian Discourses, The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress
• Author: Soren Kierkegaard
• Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings
• Volume: XVII
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Print Publication Date: 1997
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christian life › Lutheran authors; Theater; Heiberg, Johanne Luise, 1812-1890
• ISBNs: 9781400832385, 0691016496, 0691140782, 9780691016498, 9780691140780, 1400832381
• Resource ID: LLS:KKGWRTGS17
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-05T00:02:27Z

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.