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Practice in Christianity is the second volume in what could be called the “collected Works” of “Anti-Climacus,” Kierkegaard’s new pseudonym. Anti-Climacus’s first volume, The Sickness Unto Death, appeared just a year earlier in 1849. The use of a pseudonym is consistent with Kierkegaard’s usual practice when presenting an idealized statement of his subject, be it sexual seduction or Christian theology. Anti-Climacus argues the conceptual content of Christianity against the “leading thought of the times” and also against the ethical and social import of the comforts and consolations of bourgeois culture and religion which he called “Christendom.” In his own mind at least, Kierkegaards presents Christianity as it must be thought and lived if it is to be authentic. The Sickness unto Death and Practice in Christianity can be and are read quite independently, but jointly they provide the basis of Kierkegaard’s devastating critique of a secularized, culturally homogenized, and tame Christianity.

Robert L. Perkins† (Ph.D., Indiana University), Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Professor of Philosophy at Stetson University, was an international authority on the Danish Philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and series editor of the 24-volume International Kierkegaard Commentary. Prior to his long career at Stetson, Bob was founder and department chair (for 16 years) of the Philosophy Department at the University of South Alabama. His research interests in Kierkegaard provoked his studies in ethics, contemporary philosophy, and ancient philosophy.