Writing for those who don’t know philosophical and theological jargon, he shows how Kierkegaard’s body of work bears witness to the fact that nominal Christianity is no Christianity at all.

And it was out of this suffering that Søren Kierkegaard laid siege to the reigning European philosophy and the comfortable Christianity of his day. Kierkegaard was born in Copenhagen, into a ...

“When one views the historical roles of the religions on their journey through the world,” Kierkegaard asserts boldly in 1839, “the relationship is as follows: Christianity is the actual ...

also loved his attacks on the clergy and official religion of Christendom. If this is the book on Kierkegaard the church needs, a deeper question yet remains: Why does the church need any book on ...

In other words, the zeal for the advance of Christendom harms the practice and witness of the Christian faith. Some readers will read that sentence and immediately think, “Ahh, Kierkegaard.” ...

By wrestling with our despair, we can understand what is spiritually lacking not just in secular life but also, Kierkegaard asserted, in conventional Christianity. The Sickness Unto Death ...

God made the world and saw that it was good: that is an element of orthodox teaching that is conspicuously downplayed in Kierkegaard’s thought. Indeed, by the end of his life, in his attack upon what ...

Imagine being Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish existentialist. The command to "love your neighbor as yourself" was not confusing for him. It was a challenge—a deeply personal and moral imperative.