Posts Tagged “existentialism”
Come Hither: Kierkegaard’s Gospel #5
by i.burgess on October 19, 2011
Come hither to me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. Over the next few days I’m going to be exploring Søren Kierkegaard’s exposition of the above verse as he writes in the opening chapter of his book Training in Christianity. While perhaps I wouldn’t read scripture in the same [...]
Come Hither: Kierkegaard’s Gospel #2
by i.burgess on October 1, 2011
Come hither to me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. Over the next few days I’m going to be exploring Søren Kierkegaard’s exposition of the above verse as he writes in the opening chapter of his book Training in Christianity. While perhaps I wouldn’t read scripture in the same [...]
The Work of Joy
by i.burgess on June 3, 2011
If God grants his Holy Spirit freely by grace through faith, such that anyone who believes in Jesus and is therefore made pure by his sacrifice can be filled with his presence, why do Christians not continually feel the secure joy of that presence? To put it another way, why does it appear that a Christian must [...]
The end of the matter
by i.burgess on June 1, 2011
Yesterday I tried to draw out some of the harsh realities of our existence, namely that only this present moment exists. Therefore, any memory of happiness or hope for joy is imaginary, a shadow even. I noticed how we fail to fulfil our innate desire for joy because we believe we have either already been as happy [...]
One Breath From Eternity
by i.burgess on May 31, 2011
You have heard it said that you should live every day as if it’s your last, but I say unto you meet each moment as if it’s the only one you have. The past is an illusion, it exists only in our memories. Similarly the future is a myth, a product of our imaginations. This [...]
We only hope to live
by i.burgess on May 30, 2011
We do not rest satisfied with the present. We anticipate the future as too slow in coming, as if in order to hasten its course; or we recall the past, to stop its too rapid flight. So imprudent are we that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not think of [...]
Kierkegaard on discipleship
by i.burgess on May 17, 2011
…Loftiness is naturally an easy thing, and to feel oneself drawn to it is easy enough. But Christ who from on high draws all men to Himself does not take them out of the world where they live. and therefore to everyone who is drawn unto Him in the heights lowliness and humiliation come as [...]
Being in the process of becoming
by i.burgess on January 12, 2011
Last time I wrote, I quoted Kierkegaard on the fear of the Lord. This time I want to pick up an idea which was embedded within that and expend it. Kierkegaard instructs his readers to be in fear of the Lord because one is ‘in the process of becoming’. As if, when one is aware [...]
Fear and Trembling
by i.burgess on December 31, 2010
Every individual ought to live in fear and trembling, so too there is no established order which can do without fear and trembling. Fear and trembling signifies that one is in the process of becoming, and every individual man, and the race as well, is or should be conscious of being in process of becoming. [...]
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