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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do many Catholics argue Kierkegaard would have done had he lived?

2. Who did Kierkegaard receive communion from on his death bed?

3. According to Robert Bretall in Chapter 11, what does Kierkegaard see the truth as?

4. What does Kierkegaard think The Sickness Unto Death contains too much of?

5. How does Kierkegaard describe what Christians call sin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Kierkegaard biased about the press?

2. What does Kierkegaard believe about modern Christianity?

3. Who died in 1854 in Chapter 17, The Attack Upon Christendom, and how was this person remembered?

4. What does Kierkegaard outline about the human heart in Chapter 10, Edifying Discourses?

5. What does Kierkegaard seek about the church at the end of The Attack Upon Christendom?

6. What does Kierkegaard aim to do in Chapter 15, Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays?

7. What does Kierkegaard say Christianity offends?

8. What does Kierkegaard say about the individual?

9. What does Kierkegaard find outrageous and upsetting?

10. What, according to Kierkegaard, can generate true knowledge of the validity of Christianity?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine how Kierkegaard defines the spirit and the self and how man contains both the infinite and the finite. Use the text to support your discussion.

Essay Topic 2

Kierkegaard is considered the father of existentialism and maintained that the individual is responsible for giving life meaning. Discuss the tenets of existentialism and how it asserts the importance of human individuality.

Essay Topic 3

Kierkegaard discusses Christendom and tries to define Christendom. Examine the objectives of God and how they are realized, using the text to support your discussion.

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