By Søren Kierkegaard, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong
"Without authority," a word Kierkegaard many times utilized to himself and his writings, is an acceptable identify for this quantity of 5 brief works that during a number of methods take care of the idea that and perform of authority. The Lily within the box and the chook of the Air contemplates the instructing authority of those creatures in accordance with 3 diversified passages within the Gospels. the 1st of Two Ethical-Religious Essays mediates at the ethics of Jesus' martyrdom; the second one contrasts the authority of the genius with that of the apostle. the remainder works--Three Discourses on the Communion on Fridays (1849), An Upbuilding Discourse (1850), and Two Discourses on the Communion on Fridays (1851)--are meditations on sin, forgiveness, and the ability of love.
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The advantage of the human being over the animal is the ability to speak, but, in relation to God, wanting to speak can easily become the corruption of the human being, who is able to speak. God is in heaven and the human being is on earth and therefore they can hardly converse. God is infinite wisdom; what the human being knows is idle chatter; therefore they can hardly converse. God is love and the human being, as we say to a child, is a little ninny even in regard to his own welfare, and therefore they can hardly converse.
But there is one thing that all the craftiness of Satan and the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise or capture-it is simplicity. What Satan keenly watches for as his prey (but what is never found in the lily and the bird), what all temptation keeps in sight, certain of its No One Can Serve Two Masters 33 prey (but what is never found in the lily and the bird)-is ambivalence. Wherever there is ambivalence, there is temptation and it is all too easily the stronger there. But where there is ambivalence, there is in one way or another also disobedience underneath at the base.
If you are not unconditionally obedient in everything, then you do not love him, and if you do not love him, then-you hate him. If you are not unconditionally obedient in everything, then you are not devoted to him, or, if you are not devoted to him unconditionally and in everything, then you are not devoted to him, and if you are not devoted to him, then-you despise him. This unconditional obedience-that if one does not love God one hates him, that if one is not unconditionally and in everything devoted to him one despises him-this unconditional obedience you can learn from the teachers to whom the Gospel refers, from the lily and the bird.
