Give Me Love (Give Me Kierkegaard)

Let’s talk about love. More than that, let’s have a quiz about love or at least about song titles that contain the word, “love.” As you can see, I have removed a key word or two from these popular titles. Your task is to simply to fill in the blank(s). Here’s a sample question: Elton John: “____ ___ ____ the love tonight?” (I know! Giving you the artist is a big hint!). If you said, “Can You Feel,” you are ready to take the quiz. If you said something else, skip the quiz and go directly (but sadly) to the actual post.  Let’s begin. Queen: “_______ _____ ____ Called Love” The Beatles: “All _____ _____ ____ Love” The Everly Brothers: “_____, ____ Love” Adele: “Send My Love (____ ____ ____ ____)” Taylor Swift: “Love _______” Bon Jovi: “You Give Love ___ ____ ____” Foreigner: “I Want ____ ____ What Love

A Kierkegaardian Primer Parable

We are looking at Mark Tietjen’s excellent book, Kierkegaard: A Christian Missionary to Christians (IVP Academic, 2016) and we’ve come to his last chapter (not to be confused with the conclusion); which is entitled, “The Life of Christian Love.” But love is a big topic, and so we began our conversation by looking at twelve quotes from Kierkegaard on love in our previous post; and today, we conclude our primer by looking at his parable of the two artists.   Here's the big question: What is the difference between requiring love of the neighbor and finding something to love in the neighbor (I should mention that I found this parable in Thomas Oden’s book, Parables of Kierkegaard, Princeton University press, 1978).  Here’s the parable. . . . “Suppose there were two artists, and the one said, ‘I have traveled much and seen much in the world, but I have sought in

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