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[13] Kierkegaard stressed the importance of becoming the single individual in relation to Christ. John Gates said, Kierkegaard “symbolically’ returned to the church in 1838 when he took the Lord's Supper as a “solitary penitent’ and in his last period of authorship ten of his fifty-two published discourses had to do with Communion. [14]
Kierkegaard had done the same thing with his Either/Or (aesthetic) and Two Upbuilding Discourses (ethical-religious), both published in 1843. Kierkegaard wrote many books for the Christian reader. The contemporary reception of his book was meager. There were no reviews and only three "appreciative letters". A second edition was published in 1862.
Kierkegaard's Existentialism: an overview YouTube Lecture by Anders Kraal on Either/Or; The Treatment of Love in Soren Kierkegaard's Either/Or; Kierkegaard "Either/Or" YouTube introduction to the book; D. Anthony Storm's commentary on Either/Or; Professor J Aaron Simmons Kierkegaard's 3 Stages of Life: Aesthetic, Ethical, & Religious YouTube
Soren Kierkegaard, Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, Hong p 269 The paradox and the absurd are ultimately related to the Christian relationship with Christ, the God-Man. That God became a single individual and wants to be in a relationship with single individuals, not to the masses, was Kierkegaard's main conflict with the nineteenth ...
Soren Kierkegaard, Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, 1847, Hong 1993 p. 339. Kierkegaard compared a pound of gold and a pound of feathers. He views the pound of feathers as a lesser weight because of the value of gold compared to feathers. He then asks the reader to decide if a pound of temporality is equal to a pound of eternity. [19]
Kierkegaard posited three stages of human existence: the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious, the latter coming after what is often called the leap of faith. [citation needed] Kierkegaard argued that the universe is fundamentally paradoxical, and that its greatest paradox is the transcendent union of God and humans in the person of Jesus ...
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (/ ˈ s ɒr ə n ˈ k ɪər k ə ɡ ɑːr d / SORR-ən KEER-kə-gard, US also /-ɡ ɔːr /-gor; Danish: [ˈsɶːɐn ˈɔˀˌpyˀ ˈkʰiɐ̯kəˌkɒˀ] ⓘ; [1] 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855 [2]) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first Christian existentialist philosopher.
Kierkegaard explores two simple verses from the Old Testament, "Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell upon the ground, and worshiped, saying: Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return; the Lord gave, and the Lord took away; blessed be the name of the Lord.", [6] and delivers a message to his "reader" about gratitude.