Kierkegaard's Writings, XVII, Volume 17 : : Christian Discourses: The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress. / / Søren Kierkegaard; ed. by Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Kierkegaard, Søren,
• HerausgeberIn: Hong, Edna H.,; Hong, Howard V.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Kierkegaard's Writings ; 59
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.) :; 6 halftones

First published in 1848, Christian Discourses is a quartet of pieces written and arranged in contrasting styles. Parts One and Three, "The Cares of the Pagans" and "Thoughts That Wound from Behind--for Upbuilding," serve as a polemical overture to Kierkegaard's collision with the established order of Christendom. Yet Parts Two and Four, "Joyful Notes in the Strife of Suffering" and "Discourses at the Communion on Fridays," are reassuring affirmations of the joy and blessedness of Christian life in a world of adversity and suffering. Written in ordinary language, the work combines simplicity and inwardness with reflection and presents crucial Christian concepts and presuppositions with unusual clarity. Kierkegaard continued in the pattern that he began with his first pseudonymous esthetic work, Either/Or, by pairing Christian Discourses with The Crisis, an unsigned esthetic essay on contemporary Danish actress Joanne Luise Heiberg.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Historical Introduction -- Part One. The Cares of the Pagans -- The Gospel for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity -- Introduction -- I. The Care of Poverty -- II. The Care of Abundance -- III. The Care of Lowliness -- IV. The Care of Loftiness -- V. The Care of Presumptuousness -- VI. The Care of Self-Torment -- VII. The Care of Indecisiveness, Vacillation, and Disconsolateness -- Part Two. States of Mind in the Strife of Suffering -- I. The Joy of It: That One Suffers Only Once But Is Victorious Eternally -- II. The Joy of It: That Hardship Does Not Take Away But Procures Hope -- III. The Joy of It: That the Poorer You Become the Richer You Are Able to Make Others -- IV. The Joy of It: That the Weaker You Become the Stronger God Becomes in You -- V. The Joy of It: That What You Lose Temporally You Gain Eternally -- VI. The Joy of It: That When I "Gain Everything" I Lose Nothing at All -- VII. The Joy of It: That Adversity Is Prosperity -- Part Three Thoughts That Wound from Behind-for Upbuilding -- I. Watch Your Step When You Go to the House of the Lord -- II. "See, We Have Left Everything and Followed You; What Shall We Have?" (Matthew 19:27)-and What Shall We Have? -- III. All Things Must Serve Us for Good-When We Love God -- IV. There Will Be the Resurrection of the Dead, of the Righteous-and of the Unrighteous -- V. We Are Closer to Salvation Now-Than When We Became Believers -- VI. But It Is Blessed-to Suffer Mockery for a Good Cause -- VII. He Was Believed in the World -- Part Four. Discourses at the Communion on Fridays -- Preface -- I. Luke 22:15 -- II. Matthew 11:28 -- III. John 10:27 -- IV. I Corinthians 11:23 -- V. II Timothy 2:12-13 -- VI. I John 3:20 -- VII. Luke 24:51 -- The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress -- Addendum -- Supplement -- Key to References -- Original Tide Page And Section Pages Of Christian Discourses -- Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Christian Discourses -- Original First Page of The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress -- Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress and Addendum -- Editorial Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Collation of Christian Discourses in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works -- Collation of The Crisis and a Crisis in the Life of an Actress in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works -- Notes -- Bibliographical Note -- Index -- Advisory Board