The Hidden Authorship of Søren Kierkegaard. Jacob Sawyer

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      This hiddenness was undertaken in the hope that his reader would, as we presume of Kierkegaard himself, meet God in the hiddenness of her own heart. Therefore, my thesis is this:

      It was through Kierkegaard’s understanding of the gospel that his authorship took the form of hiddenness.

      The underlying question that has driven me in this research of Kierkegaard and his work is to do with the appropriate relation between form and content: How does the nature of truth affect or impinge on its communication? In particular, how does the Christian claim of Jesus as truth affect a person who attempts to speak truthfully? What does it mean to speak as a Christian? If Christ is the truth, how is a believer to speak (or write) of him? Through examining Kierkegaard’s authorship, I will present him as one who understood this tension and attempted to embody Christian truth in his own authorship.

      This work is not written in an attempt to summarize Søren Kierkegaard’s life or thought, nor to dissect him as an object of interest on the altar of objective, universal knowing. Rather, it is an attempt to learn from Kierkegaard’s works as they addressed his context and to present him as an example of a Christian communicator. Through demonstrating Kierkegaard’s literary genius on behalf of the gospel, I hope that we may learn how to communicate “in truth.”

      Methodology

      • “Hiddenness” and its derivatives are being used in this work in a sense similar to Kierkegaard’s use of these words, especially in his concept “hidden inwardness.” These words carry the sense of something being kept from direct observation or understanding.

      • “Believer,” “learner,” “reader,” “hearer,” “student,” etc. have been used throughout as interchangeable terms for a person engaging with either Kierkegaard’s works, truth, or a matter presented to them by another.

      Much of what is written here presumes Christian faith, and Kierkegaard argues that a true depth of knowing Christianity requires the passion of faith. I therefore hope to demonstrate here the importance of an inside reading of Kierkegaard.

      Structure


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