Kierkegaard, a poet of beliefs and practitioner of the oblique technique, additionally had an immediate and polemical part. He published this in numerous writings all through his occupation, culminating in The Moment, his assault opposed to the verified ecclesiastical order.
Kierkegaard used to be moved to criticize the church by way of his alterations with Bishop Mynster, Primate of the Church of Denmark. even supposing Mynster observed in Kierkegaard a supplement to himself and his outlook, Kierkegaard challenged Mynster to recognize the emptying and estheticizing of Christianity that had happened in sleek Christendom. for 3 years Kierkegaard used to be silent, ready. whilst Mynster died, he was once memorialized as "an real truth-witness" within the "holy chain of truth-witnesses that stretches in the course of the a long time from the times of the apostles." This struck Kierkegaard as blasphemous and encouraged him to write down a chain of articles in Fædrelandet, which he with ten numbers of the pamphlet The Moment. This quantity comprises the articles from Fædrelandet, all numbers of The Moment, and a number of other overdue items of Kierkegaard's writing.
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