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The Prayers of Kierkegaard

With a New Introduction to His Life and Thought by Perry D. LeFevre
Read the book that a Kierkegaard biographer called “the best book on Kierkegaard that has been written in English--or any other language”!
 
Soren Kierkegaard’s influence has been felt in many areas of human thought from theology to psychology. The nearly one hundred of his prayers gathered here from published works and private papers, not only illuminate his own life of prayer, but speak to the concerns of Christians today.

The second part of the volume is a reinterpretation of the life and thought of Kierkegaard. Long regarded as primarily a poet or a philosopher, Kierkegaard is revealed as a fundamentally religious thinker whose central problem was that of becoming a Christian, of realizing personal existence. Perry D. LeFevre’s penetrating analysis takes the reader to the religious center of Kierkegaard’s world.
 

256 pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | © 1996

Religion: Christianity, Religion and Literature

Reviews

“The best book on Kierkegaard that has been written in English--or any other language.”

Walter Lowrie, author of A Short Life of Kierkegaard

“An authentic and illuminating account of Kierkegaard’s religious life. Furthermore, the excellent selection of prayers--many translated for the first time in English--gives us access to Kierkegaard’s religious dialogue at its most intimate point.”

James Collins, St. Louis University

Table of Contents

Pt. I: The Prayers
1: God, the Father
2: God, the Son
3: God, the Holy Spirit
4: For Special Occasions
Pt. II: An Interpretation of Kierkegaard’s Life and Thought
1: His Life
2: Basic Themes
3: Toward the Christian Life
4: Man of Prayer
Notes
The Works of Kierkegaard in English

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