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Title: Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard, Charles E. Moore ISBN: 1-57075-513-2 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Kierkegaard's deep, provocational Christianity
Comment: I might have rated this collection of writings higher, but didn't because there are points on which I disagree with Kierkegaard. However, where he is right, he is intensely right:
"There is a tremendous danger in which we find ourselves by being human, a danger that consists in the fact that we are placed between two tremendous powers. The choice is left to us. We must either love or hate, and not to love is to hate. So hostile are these two powers that the slightest inclination towards the one side becomes absolute opposition to the other. Let us not forget this tremendous danger in which we exist. To forget is to have made your choice." To Kierkegaard, self confident rationalism was an inadequate window on truth -- was in fact an egotistical self-deception. His seemingly counter-intuitive insistence that objective thought is inherently incomplete and uncertain has been supported in our post-modern age by principles of quantum theory. But he was less interested in being "right" than he was in existing, which for Kierkegaard meant being ready for decisive action. For him, 'actions speak louder than words,' and decision embodies greater truth than does detached rationalism. He exposes the sacred cows of "Christendom" as rotting corpses. He provokes. The thinking Christian need not agree with Kierkegaard on all fronts, so to speak, but he should not avoid these provocations. As counter-point to common, sugar coated, and silly versions of religion, they must be considered. While Kierkegaard, like Kant, can be difficult, many of these selections are powerful and certainly worthy of the effort. It is when Kierkegaard writes of love and of forgiveness that he is most profound:
"... if your life expresses the little you have understood, you speak more powerfully than all the eloquence of orators."
Rating: 5
Summary: when philosophy aims a Hubble telescope at God
Comment: This is a book that will wrestle with your soul at the deepest level, yet it is written in language that will deal with your mind in the most simple terms, without demanding you to take a leap of arcane philosophical knowledge. Here is Kierkegaard for all of us: the philosopher who holds a mirror to one's innermost being and at the same time aims a Hubble telescope right at God. One way or another, this book is bound to change your life.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful Anthology
Comment: Where to begin studying Kierkegaard? Start with "Works of Love"! But for a generalist overview of his work, to gain a sense of the scope of Kierkegaard's vastly prodigious work as an author, to be introduced in a more thematic way to the thoughts of this thinker, start with "Provocations" (which I prefer to the Brentall anthology because it tends to weave a sense of the main burdens of SK into the fabric of the selections).
I am also happy to say that this work reads more easily than some of the earlier renditions of SK, especially for U.S. readers of the new century.
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Title: Prayers of Kierkegaard by Perry D. Lefevre, Soren Kierkegaard ISBN: 0226470571 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Soren Kierkegaard's Christian Psychology: Insight for Counseling and Pastoral Care by C. Stephen Evans ISBN: 1573830380 Publisher: Regent College Pub Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Parables of Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard, Thomas C. Oden ISBN: 0691020531 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Walk in the Light & Twenty-Three Tales by Leo Tolstoy ISBN: 1570754608 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Freeing Theology : The Essentials of Theology in Feminist Perspective by Catherine M. Lacugna ISBN: 0060649356 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 24 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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