Life Must Be Understood Backwards, But Lived Forwards

Kierkegaard Life Must Be Understood Backwards But Lived Forwards, thoughtsofgod.com, Thoughts of God, David Reese

It is quite true what philosophy says; that life must be understood backwards. But then one forgets the other principle: that it must be lived forwards. Which principle, the more one thinks it through, ends exactly with the thought that temporal life can never properly be understood precisely because I can at no instant find […]

For the Christian, Everything Should Serve for Edification – Kierkegaard

Kierkegaard For the Christian Everything Should Serve for Edification

… it may well seem to them too rigorous to be edifying, and too edifying to be strictly scientific …. From the Christian point of view everything, indeed everything should serve for edification.… This relation of the Christian teaching to life (in contrast with a scientific aloofness from life), or this ethical side of Christianity, […]