provocations -- a book review

Provocations:  Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard is one of those edited collections of spiritual classics that is, itself, destined to become a classic.  Here, Kierkegaard speaks at his finest, his clearest, his most accessible, in a way that is meant not only to inform -- but to transform.

This book is one that readers will find themselves transformed by the Jesus Kierkegaard knows and of which Kierkegaard writes.  This isn't a book that contains simply more information about the spiritual life.  No, this is a book that is meant to embark its readers onto the journey of life with God in Jesus.

This book is meant simply to provoke.

Charles Moore has edited some of Kierkegaard's most important works, in an effort to make the Dane speak with clarity to a new age -- one filled with all the dread and deadness in its spiritual life that Kierkegaard saw even in the early nineteenth century.

So if you find that you're unprovoked, you really should read it again.  Because Kierkegaard's unflinching spiritual honesty and wisdom won't let you sit comfortably idle.

He will provoke your spiritual life and all your malaise.  (Particularly in Part VI.)

And nothing will ever be the same again.

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I received a free copy of this book from Plough Publishing in exchange for my honest review here.