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Of the many works he wrote during 1848, his “richest and most fruitful year,” Kierkegaard specified Practice in Christianity as “the most perfect and truest thing.” In his reflections on such topics as Christ’s invitation to the burdened, the imitatio Christi, the possibility of offense, and the exalted Christ, he takes as his theme the requirement of Christian ideality in the context of divine...

they were invited. O man, why does your eye see only to its own interest; why is it evil because he is good!14 The invitation to all opens the inviter’s arms, and thus he stands as an eternal image.15 As soon as there is the more specific definition, which perhaps would help the single individual to another kind of certainty, the inviter looks different, then a shadow of change,16 as it were, speedily comes over him. “I will give you rest.”—Amazing! Then those words “Come here to me” presumably must
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