The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses

About this book

A masterful new translation of one of Kierkegaards most engaging works In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. Sren Kierkegaards short masterpiece on this famous gospel passage draws out its vital lessons for readers in a rapidly modernizing and secularizing world. Trenchant brilliant and written in stunningly lucid prose The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air (1849) is one of Kierkegaards most important books. Presented here in a fresh new translation with an informative introduction this profound yet accessible work serves as an ideal entre to an essential modern thinker. The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air reveals a less familiar but deeply appealing side of the father of existentialismunshorn of his complexity and subtlety yet supremely approachable. As Kierkegaard later wrote of the book "Without fighting with anybody and without speaking about myself I said much of what needs to be said but movingly mildly upliftingly." This masterful edition introduces one of Kierkegaards most engaging and inspiring works to a new generation of readers.