... safest people in his life, his mother and uncle--but he never despairs. Kierkegaard and Mark About the same time I watched this movie, an essay ran ... (happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/kierkegaard-on-the-couch/?scp=1&sq=kierkegaard& ... not wanting to accept who you fundamentally are, of wanting to get rid of yourself, as Kierkegaard put it. It's a malaise of the spirit. Depression is ...

... health looms up with regard to the way that we relate to our emotional lives. Again, for Kierkegaard, despair is not a feeling, but an attitude, a posture towards ourselves. The man who did ... him to give up on himself, and to see his suffering as a kind of fever without significance? If so, Kierkegaard would bid him to consider a spiritual consultation on his despair, to go along with his trip to ...

... to expound the true nature of Christianity, with Jesus as its role model.Kierkegaard's vision of the world was that it was composed of an endless variety of subjective alternate ... divine.He said to Emil Boesen, a friend since childhood who kept a record of his conversations with Kierkegaard, that his life had been one of immense suffering, which may have seemed like vanity to others, but he ...

... have not only pleasure but piety as well. This is supposed to be Christianity. Compare it with the New Testament, and you will see that this is as far from that as possible.~ Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations, ed. by C. Moore Note: Kierkegaard was a Christian in Denmark, writing and railing against the entrenched national religion of Christianity during the 1840's and 50's ...

... ;s another quote from SK's Works of Love. While I find it hard to agree with everything that he says, Kierkegaard really know how to winsomely make a point! * It is one thing to let ideas strive with ideas; ... from what he does, how great is the distance between his understanding and his action. = Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love, translated by Howard and Edna Hong (New York: Harper Perennial ...

I rather enjoy this quote by Kierkegaard regarding Christian scholarship. It contains some thoughts worth thinking about! "The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy ... coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes, it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament. " -Søren Kierkegaard