Contains a little of everything from Kierkegaard's prodigious output: his famously cantankerous (yet wryly humorous) attacks on what he calls the 'mediocre shell' of conventional Christianity, his brilliantly pithy parables, his wise (and witty) sayings. Most significantly, it brings to a new generation a man whose writings pare away the fluff of modern spirituality to reveal the basics of the Christ-centered life: decisiveness, obedience, and recognition of the truth.

I. To Will One Thing --II. Truth and the Passion of Inwardness -- III. The Works of Love -- IV. Anxiety and the Gospel of Suffering -- V. Christian Collisions -- VI. Thoughts that Radically Cure: Excerpts and Aphorisms.