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Highlights
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) had a mission-reintroduce the Christian faith to Christians.
- About the Author: Mark A. Tietjen (PhD, Baylor University) is director of religious life and Grace Palmer Johnston Chair of Bible at the Stony Brook School in Stony Brook, New York.
- 173 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Christian Ministry
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About the Book
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) had a mission--reintroduce the Christian faith to Christians. Mark Tietjen thinks that Kierkegaard's critique of his contemporaries strikes close to home today. Through an examination of core Christian doctrines, he helps us hear Kierkegaard's missionary message to a church that often fails to follow Christ with purity of heart.
Book Synopsis
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) had a mission-reintroduce the Christian faith to Christians. Mark Tietjen thinks that Kierkegaard's critique of his contemporaries strikes close to home today. Through an examination of core Christian doctrines, he helps us hear Kierkegaard's missionary message to a church that often fails to follow Christ with purity of heart.
Review Quotes
"I often meet young adults who call themselves 'recovering evangelicals, ' or, similarly, who explain as quickly as they can up front that they have moved beyond their days in a nondenominational parachurch group. One such student gave me a refrigerator magnet that says: 'Yeah, like Jesus would live in a gated community and attend a mega-church.' Reading Kierkegaard with young Christians caught between the twinned perspectives of idealism and cynicism amplifies Kierkegaard's pastoral voice. Mark Tietjen's book describes, in the vernacular, how Kierkegaard quickens readers to receive the daily gift of a faith that has often been taught either as a cosmic culture battle or as a guide to good manners. This book is an inviting, loving introduction to the writings of a Christian intent on revivifying the faith of the faithful."
About the Author
Mark A. Tietjen (PhD, Baylor University) is director of religious life and Grace Palmer Johnston Chair of Bible at the Stony Brook School in Stony Brook, New York. Former secretary-treasurer of the Søren Kierkegaard Society, Tietjen is the author of Kierkegaard, Communication, and Virtue: Authorship as Edification.