Joakim Garff’s justly acclaimed biography of Kierkegaard, published in English in the year marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Hans Christian Andersen, invites us into the literary world of ...

It is often claimed that relativism, subjectivism and nihilism are typically modern philosophical problems that emerge with the breakdown of traditional values, customs and ways of life. The result is ...

This is the first in a three-part series examining the theological ideas of Søren Kierkegaard through the work of three contemporary church critics. Kierkegaard’s work is notoriously difficult to ...

William James liked to quote Søren Kierkegaard’s famous assertion that “we live forward, but we understand backwards.” Kierkegaard, the great Danish philosopher of subjectivity, would have been two ...

A few years ago, Alain de Botton was mocked for posting a tweet that bemoaned the “plight of thinkers”: “sitting on sofa, gazing blankly, not helping unload dishwasher, dismissed as ‘doing nothing’.” ...

The Dane Søren Kierkegaard is one of the 19th century’s heralds of modernism in philosophy. A Christian with an ambivalent, ultimately antagonistic relationship to Christianity (“Christendom”, as he ...

For Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), anxiety is “a kind of horror at an undefined possibility, a terrifying presentiment of some unknown but possible peril”; this captures what many of us are feeling in ...

A new doodle has found its way onto the Google home page, this one celebrating a legendary philosopher and theologian. Joe has been writing about consumer tech for nearly seven years now, but his ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

When Søren Kierkegaard wrote: “It is quite true what philosophy says, that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other principle, that it must be lived forward”, he was creating ...