In this study, we read through abridged excerpts of Søren Kierkegaard’s book Works of Love as found in Provocation – The Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard. Within these writings, Kierkegaard explores the practical aspects of the duty to love your neighbor as yourself. I have personally found this excerpts to be the most profound discussion on this greatest commandment. This lesson cover four weeks.
Works of Love – Week 1(a) – God’s Triumphant Love
God becomes human not only to show his love for us but so we may…
Works of Love – Week 1(b) – Neighbor Love
This duty to love is blind to the identity of the beloved. Because of the…
Works of Love – Week 2(a) – The Greater Love
To paraphrase Jesus (Matt. 7:24-27), a relationship can either be built on the rock of…
Works of Love – Week 2(b) – Love the Person You See
The task is not to find the loveable object, but to find the object before…
Works of Love – Week 3(a) – Love’s Hidden Need
Our Love is known by its Works of Love just as tree is know by…
Works of Love – Week 3(b) – Love Builds Up
Only when we presuppose the existence of love in the other do we have the…
Works of Love – Week 4(a) – Love’s Like-for-Like
It is only an illusion to imagine that one himself has forgiveness, although one is…
Works of Love – Week 4(b) – Love Abides Forever
Even though the Beloved breaks off the relationship or fails to reciprocate the love, so…