Practice in Christianity
Practice in Christianity by Søren Kierkegaard, published by Princeton University Press in 1991, is a revised edition that spans 416 pages. In this work, Kierkegaard reflects on significant themes such as Christ’s invitation to the burdened and the concept of imitatio Christi. He explores the necessity of Christian ideality within the framework of divine grace, addressing both clergy and laity while emphasizing the need for a critical examination of how Christianity interacts with culture and individual interpretations of grace.
Readers will find that Kierkegaard’s writing serves as a corrective defense, aiming to establish a foundation for the existing order that acknowledges the Christian requirement and its inherent distance from it. The text also marks the beginning of Kierkegaard’s critique of Christendom, articulated through the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. This edition offers insights into the philosophical and religious dimensions of Kierkegaard’s thought, making it a significant contribution to discussions on faith and ethics.
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Of the many works he wrote during 1848, his richest and most fruitful year, Kierkegaard specified Practice in Christianity as the most perfect and truest thing. In his reflections on such topics as Christ’s invitation to the burdened, the imitatio Christi, the possibility of offense, and the exalted Christ, he takes as his theme the requirement of Christian ideality in the context of divine grace. Addressing clergy and laity alike, Kierkegaard asserts the need for institutional and personal admission of the accommodation of Christianity to the culture and to the individual misuse of grace. As a corrective defense, the book is an attempt to find, ideally, a basis for the established order, which would involve the order’s ability to acknowledge the Christian requirement, confess its own distance from it, and resort to grace for support in its continued existence. At the same time the book can be read as the beginning of Kierkegaard’s attack on Christendom. Because of the high ideality of the contents and in order to prevent the misunderstanding that he himself represented that ideality, Kierkegaard writes under a new pseudonym, Anti-Climacus.
— “Library Journal”
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