Kierkegaard became increasingly convinced that his calling was in "making Christianity difficult." He was to remind people of his day that to be truly Christian, one must become aware of the cost ...

Unfinished sketch of Søren Kierkegaard, by his cousin Niels Christian Kierkegaard, c. 1840 ... overwhelms us with 800 pages of either and or and dazzles us with quotes like “Anxiety is the ...

With the release of Kierkegaard and Spirituality: Accountability as the Meaning of Human Existence—the newest volume in the “Kierkegaard as Christian Thinker” series from Eerdmans press—C ...

This short statement from the 19th-century Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaaard, provides much food for thought. Kierkegaard writes from within a Christian framework, as a fierce critic of the ...

Scholars can be like children in a schoolyard. We push one another around, turn our noses up and have our cliques. On the terrain that I know best, the writings of Søren Kierkegaard, today’s ...

Soren Kierkegaard (1813–55) is generally recognised as the first existentialist philosopher, but unlike many other existentialists, there is a strong theological vein running through his ...