Kierkegaard"s Writings, Xxiii (ebook)

Argumento de Kierkegaard"s Writings, Xxiii (ebook)

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.0Historical 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