Hans Christian Andersen

He was right enough when he insisted upon the category of, quote, the individual, unquote, in opposition to pantheism and the dead churchism of his day.

Without personal relationship, the cause of Christianity falls to the ground.

Quote, everyone must navigate the sea of this world in his own little kayak, unquote.

to be saved one must embark in the vessel of his own individuality but he denies the church idea and leads us astray when he says every human being of earnest mind who knows what edification means every one whatever else they may be high or low wise or simple man or woman every one who has felt the power of edification or god present with them will grant me unconditionally that it is impossible to edify or to be edified en masse edification yet more than love can only bear relation to the individual the individual not in the sense of the distinguished and specially endowed but the individual in the sense in which every one ought and can be such in which he must place his honour nay his salvation on attaining he destroys all ministry and makes christ the saviour of the individual only overlooking both the church and the world when he says the individual this category has only been employed once before the first time in a decidedly dialectic manner by socrates in order to overthrow paganism in christianity on the other hand it is to be employed this second time to make men i e nominal christians real followers of christ it is not the category of the missionary in regard to the heathen which he announces to the christian world but it is the missionary's category within christendom itself to reintroduce christianity into christendom his one-sided interest in the individual led him to a false position in regard to the established state church or as he called it official christianity which was as he repeatedly declared a vast deception It also made him antagonistic to church people at large, quote, the thousands of people who call themselves Christians, but have their lives in entirely different categories, unquote.

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The first part of these works endeavors to impress the solemnity of Christianity upon an age which lived either without Christianity or with a Christianity founded on custom

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