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Inevitable martyrdom

The connection between faith and suffering in Kierkegaard's later writings

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  1. Søren Kierkegaard,Training in Christianity. Translated by Walter Lowrie (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967), p. 108 [Henceforth abbreviated TC].

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  2. Søren Kierkegaard,Judge for Yourselves. Translated by Walter Lowrie (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974), p. 146 [Henceforth abbreviated JY].

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  3. TC, p. 121.

  4. See Søren Kierkegaard,For Self-Examination. Translated by Walter Lowrie (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974), p. 96. On p.101 he writes: ‘Faith is on the other side of death’. [Henceforth abbreviated SE].

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  5. SE, p. 97.

  6. Michael Plekon defines Kierkegaard's as an ‘ascetic, cross-based theology’. See his chapter ‘Kierkegaard the theologian: the roots of his theology in works of love’, in George Connell and C. Stephen Evans (eds.),Foundations of Kierkegaard's Vision of Community: Religion, Ethics, and Politics in Kierkegaard (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1992), p. 5.

  7. I have borrowed this phrase form Merold Westphal, ‘Kierkegaard's teleological suspension of religiousness B’, in Connell and Evans, Ibid., p. 123.

  8. Ibid., p. 110–129.

  9. Ibid., p. 119.

  10. Ibid., p. 123.

  11. Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers. Translated and edited by Howard and Edna Hong (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970) [Henceforth abbreviated JP]. Entry number 6837.

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  16. Connell and Evans, op. cit., p. xvii.

  17. JY, p. 215.

  18. Merold Westphal, ‘Kierkegaard's teleological suspension of religiousness B’, in Connell and Evans, op. cit., p. 110.

  19. See in particular JP, No. 3758.

  20. JP, No. 1903.

  21. JP, No. 1889.

  22. JP, No. 2643.

  23. JP, No. 4661.

  24. JP, No. 4689.

  25. JP, No. 4698.

  26. JP, No. 4700.

  27. JP, No. 4704.

  28. JP, No. 4709.

  29. JP, No. 4730.

  30. JP, No. 1901.

  31. JP, No. 2645.

  32. JP, No. 2661.

  33. Louise C. Keeley, ‘Subjectivity and world inWorks of Love’, in Connell and Evans, op. cit., pp. 104–5.

  34. JP, No. 1957.

  35. See Howard and Edna Hong's ‘Historical introduction’, in Søren Kierkegaard,The Sickness Unto Death (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980), p. xvi.

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  37. Louise C. Keeley, in Connell and Evans, op. cit., p. 105.

  38. SE, p. 40.

  39. See, for example, JP, No. 2644.

  40. JP, No. 2649.

  41. JY, p. 202.

  42. Søren Kierkegaard,The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening. Translated by Howard and Edna Hong (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980). See pages 14, 30, 46, 49, 82, 101, 124, 131, 142, and 151.

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  44. JP, No. 4692.

  45. Acts 5: 40–41.

  46. See JP, No. 6433.

  47. JP, No. 6367.

  48. Connell and Evans, op. cit., p. xvi (Parentheses my own).

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Imbrosciano, A. Inevitable martyrdom. Int J Philos Relig 36, 105–116 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01314261

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