Medicine for the Heart

The awareness of being a single individual with eternal responsibility before God is the one thing needful. ―Søren Kierkegaard

What gives life meaning? For the incomparable nineteenth-century Dane, Søren Kierkegaard, it was ""a question of understanding my own destiny, of seeing what God really wants me to do; the thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.""

Medicine for the Heart is a guide to the extraordinary richness of Scripture seen through Kierkegaard's eyes. He wrote about Scripture as none other, a literature of surpassing artistry and rare moral power. Kierkegaard described a new believer who discovered that life was beautiful, that it was a new gloriousness of faith that no human being can give to another, but that every human being has what is highest, noblest, and most sacred in humankind. It is original in him, and every human being has it if he wants to have it.

The author is an internationally recognized professor of cardiology whose research has been devoted to understanding and explaining the workings of the human heart.

1. Opening Credits
2. Dedication
3. Quote
4. Preface
5. Book 1: Reading Scripture
6. Chapter 1: Celebrate Scripture
7. Chapter 2: Read as a single individual
8. Chapter 3: Read silently, and listen
9. Chapter 4: Read as a contemporary
10. Chapter 5: Read with personal involvement
11. Chapter 6: Read to grasp hard principles
12. Chapter 7: Read to act
13. Book 2: Abraham
14. Chapter 8: Abraham
15. Chapter 9: Sarah was barren
16. Chapter 10: God tested Abraham
17. Chapter 11: Abraham’s response to God’s testing
18. Chapter 12: Isaac turned to Abraham
19. Chapter 13: Abraham stretched forth his hand
20. Chapter 14: Abraham’s legacy
21. Book 3: Finding Christian Faith
22. Chapter 15: Seek the kingdom
23. Chapter 16: I do believe
24. Chapter 17: The highest
25. Chapter 18: Narrow way
26. Chapter 19: With God everything is possible
27. Book 4: The Fruit of the Spirit
28. Chapter 20: Love
29. Chapter 21: Joy
30. Chapter 22: Peace
31. Chapter 23: Patience
32. Chapter 24: Kindness
33. Chapter 25: Goodness
34. Chapter 26: Faithfulness
35. Chapter 27: Humility
36. Book 5: To Be the Truth
37. Chapter 28: Wealth
38. Chapter 29: Sin
39. Chapter 30: Suffering and persecution
40. Chapter 31: Loneliness
41. Chapter 32: Sickness and Death
42. Book 6: Kierkegaard Biography
43. Chapter 33: Kierkegaard himself
44. Epilogue
45. Closing Credits