?st=UF&ix=nu&I=0&V=D. A religious diatribe written from within the Church against the established order of things in a presumably “Christian” land. PDF | This article emphasizes the significant motifs of ” The Moment “, Søren Kierkegaard ” s strident criticism of the Lutheran Church and the religious.
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But in both these lands it was of course misunderstood, for no one had apprehended the implica- tions of S. Well-meaning as he doubtless is, and that’s the pleasing part about it, it perhaps escapes his notice that this is rather weak, and he lets himself be deluded by the consideration that in comparison with the prevailing lukewarmness this appears to be kierkegaaed.
So long as this is attcak done, so long as we either make as if nothing were the matter, as if everything christendo, all right, and what we call “Christianity” is the Christianity of the New Testament, or we perform artful tricks to conceal the difference, tricks to support the appearance that it is the Christianity of the New Testament — so long as this Chris- tian criminal offense continues, there can be no question of reforming, but only of throwing light upon this Christian criminal offense.
As soon as we as- sume that we may venture to give the matter this turn, Christianity is eo ipso done away with, and the priest’s oath. But do not misunderstand me. He lived all his life on his inheritance, using it to finance his literary career.
To me it is allotted to speak with the individual, to converse, and then to use the pen. Thus it is I understand the matter: But let me take this opportunity to recall how the case truly stands with me and my appearance in a daily paper.
To the man who, being better educated, knows all about this sort of thing I can say: But from the pulpit — therefore before God— to represent Bishop Mynster as a witness to the truth, one of the genuine witnesses to the truth, one in the holy chain of witnesses — before God, whose presence was assured by calling upon Him to be present in the prayer before the sermon — to represent him for this too was doneto artack this man — God in heaven!
Kierkegaard’s attack upon “Christendom,” 1854-185
And this in my opinion is the falsification of which official Christian- ity is guilty: This is the religious situation. We do know that Kierkegaard was an important influence on German theologian and martyr Di Reading this volume after Kierkegaard’s earlier works is jarring. Next to them come the shopkeepers, and last would come the fantasy-production by Bishop Martensen, “The Witnesses to the Truth.
Christianity cannot be well served kiermegaard calling this sort of thing Christianity, with the implication that it is the Chris- tianity of the New Testament; and Christianly the congregation cannot be well served thereby, for it fails upom observe what Christianity accord- ing to the New Testament is.
I am not, as well-intentioned people represent 20 for I can pay no attention to the interpretations of me that are advanced by exasperation and rage and impotence and twaddleI am not a Christian severity as opposed to a Christian leniency.
Princeton University Press Zeuthen which are interspersed in various articles, to which I have not replied.
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As to what Kierkegaaard have said of the teacher the priestthat he is the trivial contrary. The Instant was published at Hamburg inand the whole of the Agitatorische Schrijten u. To speak thus, is this perhaps also a way of witnessing to the truth? To name one exponent of this silly assumption of importance I will mention Dr.
This is not my invention, for it is used significantly by the Jena publisher Diederichs, who happens to be the publisher of S. For if Bishop Mynster is a witness to the truth, then, as even the blindest can see, every priest in the land is a witness to the truth.
A statistician, for example, when he had assured himself of the existence of this Christian inventory, would think that he was thoroughly justified in putting oierkegaard his sta- tistics the statement that the Christian religion is the prevailing one in the land.
And yet it is discomfiting to recognize how often they do apply, and how often they apply with greater force to our age. For in the last resort, precisely to the concept “Church” is to be traced the fundamental confusion both of Protestantism and of Catholicism — or is it to the concept “Christendom”?
But it is just really, really repetitive. For this reason “man” is interested and employed’ in winning whole nations of Christians, kingdoms, lands, a whole world of Christians — for thus the thing of being a Christian becomes something different from what it is in the New Testament. With reference to an anonymous proposal to me.
I dreamed that I was called Victor 29 — and the truth is that it is Dean Bloch who bears this name; what not even Bishop Martensen was capable of doing, Dean Bloch is capable of, he is able to tag me.
As usual, by the kind permission of Dr. But the really capital criminal—remember now what it was you deplored, that justice was so mild, or did not exist at all! Honesty to Christianity demands that one call to mind the Christian requirement of poverty, which is not a capricious whim of Christianity, but is because only in poverty can it be truly christdndom, and the more thousands a teacher of Christianity has by way of wages, WHAT DO I WANT?
Jeremy rated it liked it Aug 23, Crossing the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, and literature, he is an influential figure in contemporary thought. Indeed the punishment is cruelly devised; it is so cruel that I counsel the women to have their smelling salts at hand in order not to faint when they hear it.
Oct 13, J. This case is far more terrible: And this came very clearly to evidence in the memorial address made by Professor Martensen. I conclude with a quote [from memory] “Judas is greater christehdom Christians, for at least Judas didn’t revel in praise following his betrayal of the Christ.
But his life from first to last was unac- quainted with what is called enjoyment; on the other hand, from first to last it was initiated into what is called suffering — keirkegaard, alas, even you who have been exempted from the protracted, the more agonizing suf- ferings, you know nevertheless from your own experience how one winces at what is called suffering!