Kierkegaard / Hong The Moment and Late Writings

The Moment and Late Writings
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3241-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 61, 784 Seiten

Reihe: Kierkegaards Writings

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kierkegaard, Søren

Kierkegaard, Soren

Hong, Howard V.

Hong, Edna H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Historical Introduction

The Moment and Late Writings

Newspaper Articles 1854-1855 1

I Was Bishop Mynster a "Truth-Witness," One of "the Authentic Truth-Witnesses" - Is This the Truth? 3

II There the Matter Rests! 9

III A Challenge to Me from Pastor Paludan-Muller 16

IV The Point at Issue with Bishop Martensen, as Christianly Decisive for the, Christianly Viewed, Dubious Previously Established Ecclesiastical Order 19

V Two New Truth-Witnesses 25

VI At Bishop Mynster's Death 28

VII Is This Christian Worship or Is It Making a Fool of God? 30

VIII What Must Be Done - It Will Happen either through Me or through Someone Else 33

IX The Religious Situation 35

X A Thesis - Just One Single One 39

XI "Salt"; Because "Christendom" Is: the Decay of Christianity; "a Christian World" Is: a Falling Away from Christianity 41

XII What Do I Want? 46

XIII On the Occasion of an Anonymous Proposal to Me in No. 79 of This Newspaper 50

XIV Would It Be Best Now to "Stop Ringing the Alarm"? 51

XV Christianity with a Royal Certificate and Christianity without a Royal Certificate 54

XVI What Cruel Punishment! 56

XVII A Result 60

XVIII A Monologue 64

XIX Concerning a Fatuous Pompousness in Regard to Me and the Conception of Christianity to Which I Am Calling Attention 66

XX For the New Edition of Practice in Christianity 69

This Must Be Said; So Let It Be Said 71

XXI That Bishop Martensen's Silence Is (1) Christianly Indefensible; (2) Ludicrous; (3) Obtuse-Sagacious; (4) in More Than One Regard Contemptible 79

The Moment, 1-2 87

What Christ Judges of Official Christianity 127

The Moment, 3-7 139

The Changelessness of God 263

The Moment, 8-9 283

Appendix The Moment, 10 327

Supplement 355

Key to References 356

Background Material Pertaining to Faedrelandet [Newspaper] Articles 359

Original Front Page of Faedrelandet, December 18, 1854, and Original Title Pages of This Must Be Said; So Let It Be Said; The Moment, No. 1; What Christ Judges of Official Christianity; The Changelessness of God 372

Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to the Articles and The Moment and Late Writings 383

Editorial Appendix 613

Acknowledgments 615

Collation of Faedrelandet [Newspaper] Articles, The Moment, and Late Writings in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works 617

Notes 623

Bibliographical Note 655

Index 657

Über Autor(innen)

Howard V. Hong, the former Director of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, is the General Editor of Kierkegaard's Writings. Edna H. Hong is a poet, writer, and translator who has collaborated with Professor Hong on other English translations of Kierkegaard's work.