KIERKEGAARD, Søren. Lilien paa Marken og Fuglen under Himlen. Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1849. The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air. Himmelstrup 113. These "three Godly discourses" treat of the beauty and pathos of nature subject to suffering and death, distinguishing between the poetic response in which sentimentality is an end in itself and the Christian lessons of silence, obedience, and joy delineated in the New Testament. Kierkegaard had taken up this passage from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew previously in the Edifying Discourses in Various Spirits, in which he had invoked it in discussion of the absolute difference between the religious sphere and the natural, and the need for prioritization of the religious before the natural or social for a proper human relation with the divine, in contrast to Mynster's view of a continuum between the spheres in which the lower adequately adumbrated and prepared one for the higher. (Although that is not specifically at issue here, Kierkegaard's frequent discussion of this passage always revolves around the fundamental rift between the merely natural and the human.) In fact in one of Mynster's own famous Spjellerup Sermons written after his own rather tepid "breakthrough," or religious awakening, he himself takes up the theme specifically to propound this notion of a continuum between the aesthetic (or the human view of the natural) and the religious (his recognition of which, in fact, was more or less the content of this "breakthrough" itself). A presentation copy, inscribed by Kierkegaard to his cousin Peter Kierkegaard.

• Category: Extraordinary Books, Manuscripts & Art
• Keywords: association copies
• Language: Englisch
• Inventory number: 7421LB

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