Sentences with phrase «upbuilding discourses»
See Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, 134: «While the crowd makes a big noise and uproar and triumphs and jubilates; while one individual after the other hurries to the crowd's arena, where it is said to be good to be if one is seeking oblivion and indulgence from the eternal; while the crowd seems to be shouting mockingly at God, «All right, see if you can get hold of us!»
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Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions by søren kierkegaard princeton university press, 181 pages, $ 39 Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits by søren kierkegaard princeton university press, 442 pages, $ 45 Kierkegaard presented these two books of discourses to his....
The author of upbuilding discourses does not exhort, does not pass judgment.
Through the upbuilding discourses, the individual is to test himself by thinking along with the author.
Kierkegaard had written and published eighteen of these discourses, in sets of two, three, and four (republished in one volume in 1844) before he wrote Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions and Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits.
And he speaks nowhere more beautifully, more eloquently, and more persuasively than in his «upbuilding discourses.»
In Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, the reader is to reflect along with the author on what purity of heart is, how to acquire absolute confidence in Divine providence, and what it means to follow Christ.