Kierkegaard and Christian Renewal George Celestin, O.P.
Even a hurried testing of the pulse of contemporary Christianity leaves no doubt that the adrenalin of renewal is in its bloodstream. Paralleling the desire for Christian unity t?ere is a restlessness within the Protestant and Catholic churches for reform. Christianity is mustering its forces to meet the challenge of militant atheism, widespread poverty and suffering, religious indifference, and ignorance of the Gospel. This is current history. But the idea of Christian renovation did not start with us. The cry for Christian renewal was heard in the tenth, twelfth, and sixteenth centuries. The cry was also take up in nineteenth century Denmark by the lone voice of Soren Kierkegaard. He laid stress on personal renewal. "A reformation