Kierkegaard's Writings, XXIII, Volume 23 : : The Moment and Late Writings / / Søren Kierkegaard; ed. by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Kierkegaard, Søren,
• HerausgeberIn: Hong, Edna H.,; Hong, Howard V.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Kierkegaard's Writings ; 61
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (784 p.) :; 5 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION --; I. Was Bishop Mynster a "Truth-Witness," One of "the Authentic Truth-Witnesses"-Is This the Truth? --; II. There the Matter Rests! --; III. A Challenge to Me from Pastor Paludan-Müller --; IV. The Point at Issue with Bishop Martensen, as Christianly Decisive for the, Christianly Viewed, Dubious Previously Established Ecclesiastical Order --; V. Two New Truth-Witnesses --; VI. At Bishop Mynster's Death --; VII. Is This Christian Worship or Is It Making a Fool of God? --; VIII. What Must Be Done-It Will Happen either through Me or through Someone Else --; IX. The Religious Situation --; X. A Thesis-Just One Single One --; XI. "Salt"; Because "Christendom" Is: the Decay of Christianity; "a Christian World" Is: a Falling Away from Christianity --; XII. What Do I Want? --; XIII. On the Occasion of an Anonymous Proposal to Me in No. 79 of sThis Newspaper --; XIV. Would It Be Best Now to "Stop Ringing the Alarm"? --; XV. Christianity with a Royal Certificate and Christianity without a Royal Certificate --; XVI. What Cruel Punishment! --; XVII. A Result --; XVIII. A Monologue --; XIX. Concerning a Fatuous Pompousness in Regard to Me and the Conception of Christianity to Which I Am Calling Attention --; XX. For the New Edition of Practice in Christianity --; This Must Be Said; So Let It Be Said --; XXI. That Bishop Martensen's Silence Is (1) Christianly Indefensible; (2) Ludicrous; (3) Obtuse-Sagacious; (4) in More Than One Regard Contemptible --; The Moment, 1-2 --; What Christ Judges of Official Christianity --; The Moment, 3-7 --; The Changelessness of God --; The Moment, 8-9 --; Appendix: The Moment, 10 --; SUPPLEMENT --; EDITORIAL APPENDIX --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400832415; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400832415
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Søren Kierkegaard; ed. by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

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.