The Hidden Authorship of Søren Kierkegaard by Sawyer Jacob;Rae Murray;

Author:Sawyer, Jacob;Rae, Murray; [Sawyer, Jacob H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781498208932
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2015-09-30T07:00:00+00:00

383. “However, it must be said that many who praise him most misunderstand him. He did not want readers who would become Christian in virtue of his authorship. In fact, the burden of the explanatory work, The Point of View, is just this, namely, that he cannot in virtue of his own understanding of himself, of the Christian faith, and of his authorship, constitute himself as a direct agent for the production of religiosity in another. The kind of publicity he gets nowadays, however, suggests that he failed. The public advocates are mistaken. Many of them, at worst, are fawning before a genius, or, at best, are overly anxious to give honor where their debt is great. There is, though another misunderstanding and this is rooted in the failure to read and to understand the man’s authorship as the kind of work he wished it to be” (Holmer, On Kierkegaard and the Truth, 15).

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