| Author | Søren Kierkegaard |
|---|---|
| Original title | Indøvelse i Christendom |
| Translator | Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong |
| Language | Danish |
| Series | Second authorship (Pseudonymous) |
| Genre | Philosophy |
| Publisher | University bookshop Reitzel, Copenhagen |
Publication date | 1850 |
| Publication place | Denmark |
| Pages | 262 (Hong translation) |
| Preceded by | Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays |
| Followed by | An Upbuilding Discourse |
Practice in Christianity (also Training in Christianity) is a work by 19th-century theologian Søren Kierkegaard. It was published on September 27, 1850, under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, the author of The Sickness unto Death. Kierkegaard considered it to be his "most perfect and truest book". In it, the theologian fully exposes his conception of the religious individual, the necessity of imitating Christ in order to be a true Christian and the possibility of offense when faced with the paradox of the incarnation. Practice is usually considered, along with For Self-Examination and Judge for Yourselves!, as an explicit critique of the established order of Christendom and the need for Christianity to be (re-)introduced into Christendom, since a good part of it consists in criticism of religious thinkers of his time.[1]