Christopher B. Barnett - Søren Kierkegaard Discourses and Writings on Spirituality.

The Classics of Western Spirituality

A Library of the Great Spiritual Masters

President and Publisher
MARK-DAVID JANUS, CSP

EDITORIAL BOARD

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EMERITUS

Bernard McGinnNaomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor of Historical Theology and the History of Christianity, Divinity School, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Editorial Consultants

Joseph DanProfessor of Kabbalah, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Louis DuprProfessor Emeritus Religious Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Rozanne ElderDirector, Centre for Cistercian and Monastic Studies, The Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI

Michael FishbaneNathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies, Divinity School, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Karlfried FroehlichBenjamin B. Warfield Professor of Ecclesiastical History Emeritus, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ

Arthur GreenRector, Rabbinical School; Irving Brudnick Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Religion, Hebrew College, Newton Centre, MA

Stanley S. HarakasArchbishop Iakovos Professor of Orthodox Theology, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Seminary, Brookline, MA

Moshe IdelMax Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware of DiokleiaFellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, England

Seyyed Hossein NasrProfessor of Islamic Studies, George Washington University, Washington, DC

Sandra M. SchneidersProfessor Emerita of New Testament Studies and Spirituality, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, CA

Michael A. SellsJohn Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature, Divinity School, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Huston SmithThomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

John R. SommerfeldtProfessor Emeritus, History, University of Dallas, Irving, TX

David Steindl-RastSpiritual Author, Mount Saviour Monastery, Elmira, NY

David TracyGreeley Professor Emeritus of Roman Catholic Studies, Divinity School, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

The Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. Rowan D. WilliamsMaster of Magdalene College, Cambridge, England

Caseside image: Portrait of Sren Kierkegaard at his desk by Luplau Janssen, 1902, The Museum of Natural History, Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark.

Caseside design by Sharyn Banks

Book design by Lynn Else

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kierkegaard, Sren, 1813-1855, author. | Barnett, Christopher B. (Christopher Baldwin), 1976 editor, translator.

Title: Sren Kierkegaard : discourses and writings on spirituality / introduced and translated by Christopher B. Barnett.

Description: Mahwah, New Jersey : Paulist Press, [2018] | Series: The classics of Western spirituality | In English, translated from the original Danish. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018023980 (print) | LCCN 2018049982 (ebook) | ISBN 9781587687396 (ebook) | ISBN 9780809106486 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Theology.

Classification: LCC BX4827.K5 (ebook) | LCC BX4827.K5 A25 2018 (print) | DDC 248dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018023980

ISBN 978-0-8091-0648-6 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-58768-739-6 (e-book)

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This book is dedicated to my teachers

Videnskab kan man maaskee banke ind i et Menneske,

men det Ethiske maa man banke ud af dem.

Kierkegaard (1847)