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Harold Victor Martin published Kierkegaard, the Melancholy Dane (1950) and said in regards to the book: The personal religious sense of Repetition in relation to time and eternity is brought out by Kierkegaard in a striking Discourse entitled: The Joy of it—that what thou dost lose temporally, thou dost gain eternally. Within his temporal existence, man can only lose the temporal temporally. The seriousness of life is that it is possible for man in his temporal existence to lose the eternal; and this in fact is Kierkegaard's definition of sin—in time to lose eternity. What man must strive after is to gain the eternal eternally. p. 60Douglas V. Steere wrote a long introduction to his 1938 publication of the first part of Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits. Purify your Heart of 1937 became Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing in the hands of Steere in 1938. He says Eduard Geismar (1871–1939), the Danish scholar, said of the book, "It seems to me that nothing that he has written has sprung so directly out of his relationship with God as this address. Anyone who wishes to understand Kierkegaard properly will do well to begin with it." Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions and Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits were reviewed together in 1994 by Karl Dusza for First Things Magazine. He wrote:
If the age of Kierkegaard was the age of individualism, is our own not the age of super-individualism? If the age of Kierkegaard was also the age of romanticism, is ours not the age of super-romanticism? And if in a deeper sense Kierkegaard's age was neither that of individualism nor that of romanticism but rather in essence the age of the crowd, what is our own if not the age of the super-crowd? How fortunate for us, then, that this solitary Dane exercised his awesome analytical and rhetorical skills to tear down the veil of deception and uncover the essential folly of his time, and in so doing, bequeathed to us powerful critical tools. He has indeed left us a mirror; peering into it, we can see the folly of our time and glimpse the abyss we are in danger of falling into.
== References ==
Sources Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits translated by Howard V & Edna H Hong. Princeton University Press, 1993. ISBN 9780691032740 Hong, Howard V. & Edna H. The Essential Kierkegaard. Princeton University Press, 2000. D. Anthony Storm's Commentary on Discourses
=== External links ===
Purity of Heart Steere translation – whole text in English Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing by Sören Kierkegaard Archived June 14, 2015, at the Wayback Machine Translator's Introduction by Douglas V. Steere 1938 The Glory of Our Common Humanity David F Swenson's translation of How Glorious It Is to Be a Human Being from What We Learn From the Lilies in the Field and From the Birds of the Air The Joy in the Thought That it is not the Way Which is Narrow, but the Narrowness Which is the Way David F Swenson's translation of The Joy of it That it Is Not the Road That Is Hard but That Hardship Is the Road published 1958 from The Gospel of Sufferings, Christian Discourses The Road is the How Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits published in 1847, Hong's p. 289 Audio Reading Clifford Williams The Divided Soul: A Kierkegaardian Exploration 2009 - A Study of Purity of Heart Silvia Walsh - On Becoming a Person of Character Discussion of Kierkegaard's views on Christianity Robert L. Perkins International Kierkegaard Commentary Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits Mercer University Press, 2005 Chronology of Kierkegaard's works from Kierkegaard Internet Resources