Søren Kierkegaard

The Danish philosopher, theologian, and author Søren Kierkegaard is widely considered to be one of the most important and wide—ranging religious thinkers of the modern age. He is known as the father of existentialism, but his work was also influential on theories of modernism, theology, Western culture, church politics, and the Christian faith. His wit, imagination and humor have inspired a generation of followers, from Woody Allen to Franz Kafka. But how did this inattentive schoolboy rise...