General Introduction to "Training In Christianity."
Today we finish the General Introduction. Hooray! My voice had a frog in it all podcast that I could not shake. Just a head's up. Soren was emphatic that he was claiming no moral superiority compared to the Danish Church. He, as a Christian, was a work in progress just like all of us. That is what "Training" and "Practice" presupposes. He wanted Christendom to confess that it had made a compromise with the world. God's grace requires that honesty. And honesty brings healing.
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Preface & General Introduction By Walter Lowrie
Worked through the Preface and began the General Introduction today for Training In Christianity. It has been an interesting review of the background of this last book written by Kierkegaard.
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Soren's Life: Part II
We are almost finished reviewing the timeline of Soren's life including the writing and publication of "Training In Christianity." Soren writes, "What is able thus to inspire individuals to sacrifice everything, to venture life and blood, must be truth. This is the proof which is adduced for the truth of Christianity."
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Soren's Life: A Timeline
Well, thought I might be able to get through the summary timeline of Soren's life as written by Walter Lowrie in his translation of "Training In Christianity." This book was the final tome Kierkegaard wrote in his lifetime so it is very useful and interesting to review the progression of his life and literary career chronologically. Hopefully, we can finish up the timeline next week and see how this book was a fitting conclusion to his writings.
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Training In Christianity
This week and next week we will get into the backstory of this book as well as review a timeline of Soren's life, his book publishing dates, and the events that contributed to his writings. This episode is not a reading line by line of the Introduction and Preface type of materials. Just selected quotes. I may decide to do this selected quotes approach of his remaining books because there are far too many books to read line by line for me to finish them with the current approach. I am still weighing this. Reminder that you can join the Bierkergaard Facebook Group and follow me on X and the IG. Just search Bierkergaard.
Acerca de Bierkergaard: The Writings of Soren Kierkegaard
"The Father of Existentialism" Danish writer, poet, philosopher, and Christian thinker Soren Kierkegaard, has much to teach us about our lives. Join me weekly as we take on his writings and think about how his brilliant and profound insights illuminate our way in a complicated and confusing world. I contribute a considerable amount of my own processing of Soren’s ideas and add my own personal experiences. As Soren would wish his readers to do. This is spiritual insight and truth for the real world.
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