Word: kierkegaard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Steere spent six months recently in Germany, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian countries to study conditions for the American Friends Service Committee. Among his works are "Prayer and Worship," "Community and Worship," an introduction to "Kelly's Testament of Devotion," a translation of Kierkegaard's "Purity of Heart...
STAGES ON LIFE'S WAY-50ren Kierkegaard-Princeton...
Part III affects to be a manuscript found in a lake. Actually it is a diary of Kierkegaard's own unhappy love affair. Said he, "I am experiencing more poetry than there is in all romances put together." His problem: "Dare a soldier on the frontier (spiritually understood) take a wife, a soldier on duty at the extremest outpost, who is fighting day and night . . . against the robber bands of an innate melancholy. . . ?" In his soul-searching the diarist approaches the last stage in life's way, the religious...
Stages on Life's Way is not only one of Kierkegaard's best books* but luckily his most interesting to ordinary, unmystical readers. And because his musings on the erotic are so lucid, irreligious mankind will respect this essentially religious thinker. Judges Translator Lowrie, "The Stages is clearly a work of genius...
...Kierkegaard's works, the Rev. Walter Lowrie has translated better than a dozen. Next to appear will be Concluding Postscript, which he calls "the keystone of S. K.'s whole authorship." Held up in England by war is Either /Or, K's first, easiest work...