Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses

Søren Kierkegaard

Princeton University Press, 1990 - Literary Collections - 559 pages

There is much to be learned philosophically from this volume, but philosophical instruction was not Kierkegaard's aim here, except in the broad sense of self-knowledge and deepened awareness. Indicating the intention of the discourses, the titles include "The Expectancy of Faith," "Love Will Hide a Multitude of Sins," "Strengthening in the Inner Being," "To Gain One's Soul in Patience," "Patience in Expectancy," and "Against Cowardliness."


In tone and substance these works are in accord with the concluding words of encouragement in Either/Or, which was paired with the first volume of discourses: "Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it--and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you--for only the truth that builds up is truth for you."

Contents

• HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION: ix
• Every Good Gift and Every Perfect Gift Is from Above: 32
• To Gain Ones Soul in Patience: 159
• Two Upbuilding Discourses 1844: 271
• Patience in Expectancy: 282
• 227: 297
• The Expectancy of an Eternal Salvation: 315
• SUPPLEMENT: 403
• and Papers Pertaining to Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses: 423
• Two Upbuilding Discourses 1843: 443
• Every Good and Every Perfect Gift Is from Above: 451
• The Thorn in the Flesh: 455
• EDITORIAL APPENDIX: 491
• Three Upbuilding Discourses 1843: 496
• Four Upbuilding Discourses 1843: 503

Bibliographic information

• Title: Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses; Issue 5 of Kierkegaard's Writings, Søren Kierkegaard; Princeton paperbacks; Volume 5 of Works, Søren Kierkegaard
• Author: Søren Kierkegaard
• Editors: Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
• Translated by: Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1990
• ISBN: 0691020876, 9780691020877
• Length: 559 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / Essays; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern; Philosophy / History & Surveys / Renaissance; Philosophy / Movements / Phenomenology; Philosophy / Religious; Religion / Christian Living / General; Religion / Christian Theology / General; Religion / Christianity / General; Religion / General; Religion / Spirituality