Christian discourses; and The lilies of the field and the birds of the air ; and Three discourses at the communion on Fridays

Paganism in Christendom : on Kierkegaard s critique of religion / Merold Westphal -- On Kierkegaard s Copenhagen pagans / David D. Possen -- The genius and the saint : the spiritual teaching of Kierkegaard in Christian discourses and The re se of Lisieux in Story of a soul / Louise Carroll Keeley -- Suffering and strife : for what can we hope? / Patricia Huntington -- The joy of it / Christopher A.P. Nelson -- Kierkegaard s Christian discourses on upbuilding, mildness, and polemic : "a temple-cleansing celebration--and then the quiet" / David J. Gouwens -- Aristotle, Aquinas, and Kierkegaard on prudence / Mark A. Tietjen -- The opposition between objective knowledge and subjective appropriation in Kierkegaard and Climacus / Thomas C. Anderson -- The sickbed preacher : Kierkegaard on adversity and the awakening of faith / Ronald F. Marshall -- Christ s efficacious love and human responsibility : the Lutheran dialectic of "Discourses at the communion on Fridays" / Lee C. Barrett -- Kierkegaard s understanding of the eucharist in Christian discourses, part four / David R. Law -- The stage and stages in a Christian authorship / Hugh S. Pyper -- The actress and an actress in the life of a critic : higher criticism in "The crisis" / Joseph Westfall -- "Drunk?"/"Not drunk?" : the dialectic of intoxication in "Phister as Captain Scipio" and "Becoming sober" / Christopher A.P. Nelson..

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