Early in life, Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard was bestowed the nickname gaflen, or “fork,” for his talent at detecting weakness in others — and his taste for prodding at it. Recently, that ...

“I ’ve waited my whole life for this book. And so has the church.” So claims Richard Beck in endorsing Stephen Backhouse’s biography of Søren Kierkegaard. Although blurbs are often prone to ...

STAGES ON LIFE’S WAY — Søren Kierkegaard—Princeton ($6). Søren Kierkegaard, who died in 1855, is slowly being excavated from the Danish. Had this philosopher and mystic not written in a minor language ...

Unlike other philosophers of his time, Soren Kierkegaard was concerned with the individual’s sense of spiritual fulfillment and relationship to God. (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images) ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In one way or another, the explosive idea that “subjectivity is truth” is the guiding theme in Kierkegaard’s ...

Evangelicals shouldn’t forget his mission to make faith more ‘difficult.’ Years ago, Christianity Today ran a cartoon depicting Francis Schaeffer at the Pearly Gates. Looking through the Book of Life, ...