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The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air : Three Godly Discourses / Søren Kierkegaard.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (128 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691170473
  • 9781400880478
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 242 23
LOC classification:
  • BV4505 .K45513 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Letting Nature Point beyond Nature -- Preface -- Prayer -- The Gospel for the 15th Sunday after Trinity Sunday -- I. “Look at the birds of the air; consider the lily of the field.” -- II. “No one can serve two masters, for he must either hate the one and love the other, or hold fast to one and despise the other.” -- III. “Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns”—unconcerned about tomorrow. “Consider the grass of the field—which today is.”
Summary: In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. Søren Kierkegaard's short masterpiece on this famous gospel passage draws out its vital lessons for readers in a rapidly modernizing and secularizing world. Trenchant, brilliant, and written in stunningly lucid prose, The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air (1849) is one of Kierkegaard's most important books. Presented here in a fresh new translation with an informative introduction, this profound yet accessible work serves as an ideal entrée to an essential modern thinker.The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air reveals a less familiar but deeply appealing side of the father of existentialism—unshorn of his complexity and subtlety, yet supremely approachable. As Kierkegaard later wrote of the book, "Without fighting with anybody and without speaking about myself, I said much of what needs to be said, but movingly, mildly, upliftingly."This masterful edition introduces one of Kierkegaard's most engaging and inspiring works to a new generation of readers.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Letting Nature Point beyond Nature -- Preface -- Prayer -- The Gospel for the 15th Sunday after Trinity Sunday -- I. “Look at the birds of the air; consider the lily of the field.” -- II. “No one can serve two masters, for he must either hate the one and love the other, or hold fast to one and despise the other.” -- III. “Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns”—unconcerned about tomorrow. “Consider the grass of the field—which today is.”

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In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. Søren Kierkegaard's short masterpiece on this famous gospel passage draws out its vital lessons for readers in a rapidly modernizing and secularizing world. Trenchant, brilliant, and written in stunningly lucid prose, The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air (1849) is one of Kierkegaard's most important books. Presented here in a fresh new translation with an informative introduction, this profound yet accessible work serves as an ideal entrée to an essential modern thinker.The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air reveals a less familiar but deeply appealing side of the father of existentialism—unshorn of his complexity and subtlety, yet supremely approachable. As Kierkegaard later wrote of the book, "Without fighting with anybody and without speaking about myself, I said much of what needs to be said, but movingly, mildly, upliftingly."This masterful edition introduces one of Kierkegaard's most engaging and inspiring works to a new generation of readers.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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