CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 14
Most Danes ‘longed and prayed for summer’: see Andrew Hamilton, Sixteen Months in the Danish Isles, vol. 2 (Richard Bentley, 1852), p. 138. Hamilton also observed that ‘Autumn is a glorious season, but the Danes scarcely seem to set the same value on it which we do in England’ (p. 141).
an old man’s ‘noble wisdom’ and a young girl’s ‘loveable foolishness’: Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 6: Journals NB11–NB14, ed. and trans. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay, David Kangas, Bruce H. Kirmmse, George Pattison, Joel D. S Rasmussen, Vanessa Rumble and K. Brian Söderquist (Princeton University Press, 2013), p. 41: NB 11 (May to July 1849). On Kierkegaard’s annual struggle between 9 August and 10 September, see ibid, p. 159: NB12 (July to September 1849).
it explored the difference between rigorous and lenient Christianity: see S. Kierkegaard, Practice in Christianity, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton University Press, 1991), pp. 233–57.
‘Ah, a person can certainly proclaim leniency’: Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 7: Journals NB15–NB20, ed. and trans. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay, Bruce H. Kirmmse, David D. Possen, Joel D. S. Rasmussen, Vanessa Rumble and K. Brian Søderquist (Princeton University Press, 2014), pp. 271–2: NB18, 27 (May to June 1850).
Kierkegaard visited Mynster: see Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 8: Journals NB21–NB25, ed. and trans. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn, Alastair Hannay, Bruce H. Kirmmse, David D. Possen, Joel D. S. Rasmussen and Vanessa Rumble (Princeton University Press, 2015), pp. 68–9. See also Martensen’s comment in a letter to his friend Pastor Gude, 26 Nov November 1850: ‘This book has now caused the bishop to give up totally on K’s work; naturally, the shameless pronouncements concerning the Church’s sermons have made him indignant’ – p. 787.
‘You became a sword through the heart of your mother’: Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 7: Journals NB15–NB20, pp. 271–2: NB18, 27 (May to June 1850).
‘For my part, I love being a human being’: ibid, p. 276: NB18, 33 (May to June 1850).
Tersteegan – who gave away his inheritance and lived as a hermit: see Christopher B. Barnett, ‘Gerhard Tersteegen: Reception of a Man of “Noble Piety and Simple Wisdom”’, in Kierkegaard and the Renaissance and Modern Traditions. Tome II: Theology, ed. Jon Stewart (Ashgate, 2009), pp. 245–57.
‘Luther certainly possessed the inner truth’: Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 7: Journals NB15–NB20, pp. 329–30: NB18, 101 (May to June 1850).
‘Shall we continue to force all members of the People’s Church to undergo church wedding ceremonies’: see Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 8: Journals NB21–NB25, p. 682.
‘defying Satan, the pope, the whole world’: see ibid, pp. 371–2: NB24, 75 (April to November 1851).
‘a clever and prudent man’: Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 7: Journals NB15–NB20, p. 376: NB19, 58 (June to July 1850).
‘Surely the deepest and highest interest of the Church in our day’: see S. Kierkegaard, The Corsair Affair, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton University Press, 2009), p. 51.
‘Simply because I have from the beginning understood Christianity to be inwardness’: ibid, p. 53.
‘For him it has long been settled that he is a Christian’: Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 8: Journals NB21–NB25, p. 212: NB23, 20 (January to April 1851). On Kierkegaard’s connections to Rudelbach, see Søren Jensen, ‘Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach: Kierkegaard’s Idea of an “Orthodox” Theologian’, in Kierkegaard and His Danish Contemporaries, Tome II: Theology, ed. Jon Stewart (Ashgate, 2009), pp. 303–33.
‘one of our most talented authors’: J. P. Mynster, Yderligere Bidrag til Forhandlingerne om de kirkelige Forhold i Danmark [Further Contribution to Negotiations Concerning the Ecclesiastical Situation in Denmark] (Reitzel, 1851), p. 44; see Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 8: Journals NB21–NB25, p. 759.
‘I repeated again and again’: Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 8: Journals NB21–NB25, pp. 337–9: NB24, 30 (April to November 1851); p. 759.
Towards the end of the summer he was back on Mynster’s doorstep: see ibid, pp. 402–4: NB24, 121 (April to November, 1851).
Kierkegaard preached a Sunday sermon on ‘The Unchangingness of God’: Kierkegaard published this sermon in August 1855 under the title ‘The Changelessness of God: A Discourse’: see S. Kierkegaard, The Moment and Late Writings, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 263–81.
He had planned his sermon ‘with the thought of her’: see Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebook, Volume 8: Journals NB21–NB25, pp. 370–71: NB24, 74 (April to November, 1851).
‘No one, either in life or in death’: The Moment and Late Writings, pp. 277–81.
‘When I went home, I felt well, animated’: Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 8: Journals NB21–NB25, pp. 370–71: NB24, 74 (April to November 1851).
‘I have been told that you are gracious and kind to the young’: S. Kierkegaard, Letters and Documents, ed. and trans. Henrik Rosenmeier (Princeton University Press, 2009), pp. 379–80.
‘I have pricked up my ears and listened’: ibid, pp. 381–4.
‘You know that faith is a restless thing’: S. Kierkegaard, For Self-Examination / Judge for Yourself!, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton University Press, 1991), pp. 17–18.
‘And this way, which is Christ, this narrow way’: ibid, pp. 58–9.
gentle comfort, new life: see ibid, pp. 75–85.
When Emil called on him they talked late into the night: see Encounters with Kierkegaard, ed. Bruce Kirmmse, trans. Bruce Kirmmse and Virginia Laursen (Princeton University Press, 1998), pp. 100–101 – from a letter from Emil Boesen to Louise Boesen, autumn 1851.
Sometimes ‘every blessed day’: see Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, Volume 8: Journals NB21–NB25, p. 177: NB22, 146 (November 1850 to January 1851).
‘Perhaps it was a coincidence’: ibid, p. 532: NB25, 109 (May 1852).
‘Then came my birthday’: ibid, pp. 532–3: NB25, 109 (May 1852).