If a man can will one thing, then he must will the Good, for the Good alone is one. Chapter 4: Barriers to Willing One Thing: The Reward-Disease.The will that only wills that another object, therefore, must become double-minded. To will one thing can only mean to will the good, because every other object is not a unity. Chapter 3: Barriers to Willing One Thing: Variety and Great Moments Are Not One Thing.In confession one becomes at one with himself. Remorse is a guide that calls out to the wanderer that he should take care. Chapter 2: Remorse, Repentance, Confession: Eternity’s Emissaries to Man.There is something eternal in a man, and the eternal must be able to exist and to be grasped within every change. In relation to the eternal, a man ages neither in the sense of time nor in the sense of an accumulation of past events. Chapter 1: Introduction: Man and the Eternal.Kierkegaard desires his writing receive the same attention. Douglass Steere was Professor of philosophy at Haverford College.Ī woman doing needlework on an altar cloth does not want the work admired or criticized, but rather that the intent of the work is that it be seen for its higher purpose. SteereĪ helpful summary of Kierketaard’s basic positions, written by an outstanding scholar of his work. Translator’s Introduction by Douglas V.This calls for a costly abandonment of the old securities and the building of new foundations for faith - to will one thing. (ENTIRE BOOK) In this devotional classic, Kierkegaard seeks to rescue the individual from “massification” by compelling him to stand alone before God. Prepared for Religion Online by Ted and Willie Brock. It was translated from the Danish and contains an introductory essay by Douglas V. This book was first published by Harper in 1938. Among his many books are Training in Christianity, Sickness Unto Death, and Fear and Trembling. While his literary style was experimental, his writings call for Christian morality a defense of faith and religion. Sören Kierkegaard is one of the towering Christian existential thinkers of the mid-nineteenth century.
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