Kierkegaard – Marrow Ministries

The Anxious Age and the Doctrine it Needs

by Nick Kennicott | Jul 8, 2026 | Articles, by Nick Kennicott, Marrow Ministries Free Content

In 1844, a Danish writer published a short book about a feeling his contemporaries had not yet learned to isolate. Søren Kierkegaard called it anxiety, and he distinguished it from ordinary fear. Fear has an object. You can pinpoint what you fear and fight it, or...