Without Authority

by Soren Kierkegaard

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

, 1997

Overview

“Without authority,” a phrase Kierkegaard repeatedly applied to himself and his writings, is an appropriate title for this volume of five short works that in various ways deal with the concept and practice of authority. The Lily in the Field and the Bird of the Air contemplates the teaching authority of these creatures based on three different passages in the Gospels. The first of Two Ethical-Religious Essays mediates on the ethics of Jesus’ martyrdom; the second contrasts the authority of the genius with that of the apostle. The remaining works—Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays (1849), An Upbuilding Discourse (1850), and Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays (1851)—are meditations on sin, forgiveness, and the power of love.

Product Details

• Title: Without Authority
• Author: Soren Kierkegaard
• Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings
• Volume: XVIII
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Print Publication Date: 1997
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Devotional literature; Christian ethics; Authority › Religious aspects--Christianity
• ISBNs: 9781400832361, 0691012393, 0691140790, 9780691012391, 9780691140797, 1400832365
• Resource ID: LLS:KKGWRTGS18
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-05T00:02:57Z

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.