Bierkergaard: The Writings of Soren Kierkegaard
Eric Bierker Ph.D.
"The Father of Existentialism" Danish writer, poet, philosopher, and Christian thinker Soren Kierkegaard, has much to teach us about our lives. Join me weekly as we take on his writings and think about how his brilliant and profound insights illuminate our way in a complicated and confusing world. I contribute a considerable amount of my own processing of Soren’s ideas and add my own personal experiences. As Soren would wish his readers to do. This is spiritual insight and truth for the real world.
Episodes
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Oct 22, 2025 • 44min
Specific Christian Suffering
"It is a whole musical tone deeper than common human suffering." Soren knew what it felt like to be mocked, derided, and dismissed, in his attempts to shake Copenhagen from its sleepy civil rectitude and Christendom. God uses the lowly and humble to confound the worldly-wise. Christ and His message is hope for those with faith and an insult to those who have not faith.
Oct 15, 2025 • 41min
Peter's Denial
Soren details Peter's denial of Jesus. The Offense of God being a lowly man on trial for blasphemy.
Oct 8, 2025 • 47min
Lowly & Extraordinary
"They are offended that He, this lowly man, should be the extraordinary one."
Oct 1, 2025 • 49min
Will Ye Also Go Away?
Jesus asked this of the 12 Disciples who had seen his miracles. The Offense. Proofs make us attentive but it still requires Faith.
Sep 24, 2025 • 55min
John The Baptist...Doubts
When John was thrown into prison, he began to doubt Jesus as the Christ. "The huge folios which develop the truth of Christianity" (S.K.) were incinerated in the jail crucible of doubt. Proofs can make a person attentive to the claims of Christ. Faith is always required. "Wilt thou believe or wilt thou be offended?" The question then. The question now. That the Bible shows that John doubted points to the fact that the Bible's heroes outside of Jesus are so very human. And, in my estimation, point to the accounts of John's doubt as being accurate. None were, born of a woman, greater than John. According to Jesus. And John doubted.
Sep 17, 2025 • 41min
The Established Order(s)
The Established Order(s) in the the U.S., where ideology trumps truth. And trumpery is practiced in spades by the Right and Left political factions that are religious in character. About ultimacy. No deviance from all positions is the requirement. Or else.
Sep 10, 2025 • 53min
Collision of Piety With The Established Order
"The Pharisees and the Scribes here represent the established order...which had become empty externalism." S.K. Matthew 15: 1-12
Sep 3, 2025 • 45min
The Loftiness & The Lowliness
Kierkegaard writes that humanity is offended by Christ's assertion that He is God. And if God, how could He be a lowly man? "The God-man is the paradox, the absolute paradox."
Aug 27, 2025 • 51min
Fear Not The World
Soren tells us not to fear the enemy within or outside. "Blessed is he/she who is not offended in Him but believes." Fear taking offense at the Cross.
Aug 20, 2025 • 41min
Candor Before God
"Admit candidly before God how it stands with him, so that he might accept the Grace which is offered to everyone, who is imperfect, that is everyone." Soren Kierkegaard
