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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...

cruel enjoyment to want to feel one’s own righteousness in relation to someone who is suffering by explaining his suffering as God’s punishment upon him, so that one hardly dares to help him, or by asking him that censorious question that flatters a person’s own righteousness before one helps him. But he will not question you in this way, does not want to be your benefactor in a cruel way. And if you are conscious of yourself as a sinner, he will not question you about it, he will not break the bruised
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