Table of Contents

Historical IntroductionThe Moment and Late WritingsNewspaper Articles 1854-18551IWas Bishop Mynster a "Truth-Witness," One of "the Authentic Truth-Witnesses" - Is This the Truth?3IIThere the Matter Rests!9IIIA Challenge to Me from Pastor Paludan-Muller16IVThe Point at Issue with Bishop Martensen, as Christianly Decisive for the, Christianly Viewed, Dubious Previously Established Ecclesiastical Order19VTwo New Truth-Witnesses25VIAt Bishop Mynster's Death28VIIIs This Christian Worship or Is It Making a Fool of God?30VIIIWhat Must Be Done - It Will Happen either through Me or through Someone Else33IXThe Religious Situation35XA Thesis - Just One Single One39XI"Salt"; Because "Christendom" Is: the Decay of Christianity; "a Christian World" Is: a Falling Away from Christianity41XIIWhat Do I Want?46XIIIOn the Occasion of an Anonymous Proposal to Me in No. 79 of This Newspaper50XIVWould It Be Best Now to "Stop Ringing the Alarm"?51XVChristianity with a Royal Certificate and Christianity without a Royal Certificate54XVIWhat Cruel Punishment!56XVIIA Result60XVIIIA Monologue64XIXConcerning a Fatuous Pompousness in Regard to Me and the Conception of Christianity to Which I Am Calling Attention66XXFor the New Edition of Practice in Christianity69This Must Be Said; So Let It Be Said71XXIThat Bishop Martensen's Silence Is (1) Christianly Indefensible; (2) Ludicrous; (3) Obtuse-Sagacious; (4) in More Than One Regard Contemptible79The Moment, 1-287What Christ Judges of Official Christianity127The Moment, 3-7139The Changelessness of God263The Moment, 8-9283AppendixThe Moment, 10327Supplement355Key to References356Background Material Pertaining to Faedrelandet [Newspaper] Articles359Original Front Page of Faedrelandet, December 18, 1854, and Original Title Pages of This Must Be Said; So Let It Be Said; The Moment, No. 1; What Christ Judges of Official Christianity; The Changelessness of God372Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to the Articles and The Moment and Late Writings383Editorial Appendix613Acknowledgments615Collation of Faedrelandet [Newspaper] Articles, The Moment, and Late Writings in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works617Notes623Bibliographical Note655Index657

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Howard V. Hong, the former Director of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, is the General Editor of "Kierkegaard's Writings". Edna H. Hong is a poet, writer, and translator who has collaborated with Professor Hong on other English translations of Kierkegaard's work.

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