Søren Kierkegaard’s theory of despair. In The Sickness Unto Death, the Danish philosopher posed a difficult question: Is despair an essential feature of human life? You’ve probably had the ...

Born on May 5, 1813, Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a tall-haired theologian who brought about a sea change in Christian thought by challenging state religion and breaking with philosophical traditions ...

Imagine an educated, affluent European in his late twenties, seemingly one of fortune’s favored, who suffers from crippling feelings of despair and guilt. For no apparent reason, he breaks up with the ...

Plenty of young people may find Søren Kierkegaard relatable on the basis of his biography alone. He once dug himself into debt during a personal crisis by spending too much money on books and coffee.

According to the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), the media ― his and ours ― violates the face-to-face scale on which human communication is meant to take place.

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Almost nothing is worse, then, than realizing that your life itself has become boring. Perhaps ...

A: I use the girl on the train a lot. I’m on a train, a European train with compartments. A young girl enters and sits opposite me. She is blond, wearing a short-sleeved sweater, a short skirt. The ...

To forgive sins is wild, gratuitous folly. For someone really to forgive, they have to reconcile themselves to the offenses of the past and remain vulnerable to injury in the future. A constant ...

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, ...

Soren Kierkegaard (1813–55) is generally recognised as the first existentialist philosopher, but unlike many other existentialists, there is a strong theological vein running through his philosophy.