Works of love
"One of Soren Kierkegaard's most important writings, Works of Love is a profound examination of the human heart, in which the great philosopher conducts the reader into the inmost secrets of Love. "Deep within every man," Kierkegaard writes, "there lies the dread of being al...
| Main Author: | Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 (Author) |
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| Other Authors: | Hong, Howard V. 1912-2010 (Translator), Hong, Edna H. 1913-2007 (Translator), Pattison, George, 1950- (writer of foreword.) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Danish |
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New York, New York :
HarperPerennial, ModernThought,
2009.
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| Edition: | First Harper Perennial Modern Thought edition. |
| Series: |
Harper Perennial modern thought.
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Table of Contents:
- Forward /
- George Pattison
- Translators' Introduction
- Author's preface
- Prayer
- Part One
- I.
- Love's hidden life and its recognisability by its fruits
- II. A.
- You shall love
- B.
- You shall love your neighbour
- C.
- You shall love your neighbour
- III.
- A.
- Love is the fullfilling of the law
- B.
- Love is a matter of conscience
- IV.
- A.
- Our duty to love those we see
- B.
- Our duty to be in the debt of love to each another
- Part Two
- I.
- Love builds up
- II.
- Love believes all things and yet is never deceived
- III.
- Love hopes all things and yet is never put to shame
- IV.
- Love seeks not its own
- V.
- Love hides the multiplicity of sins
- VI.
- Love abides
- VII.
- Mercifulness, a work of love, even if it can give nothing and is capable of doing nothing
- VIII.
- The victory of reconciliation in love which wins the vaquished
- IX.
- The work of love in remembering one dead
- X.
- The work of love in praising love.