Roderick starts off this lecture on Kierkegaard with what might be a very difficult quote for some, namely, “We all know that today to be a famous Christian like Billy Graham doesn’t mean you have the task of Moses, which is to lead your people out of bondage; it means you have the job of playing golf with the Pharaoh.” Like it or not, he’s actually giving a pretty good introduction to a lecture on Kierkegaard, who, in his book Attack on Christendom (166-167), said of a famous bishop of the Danish Lutheran Church, “In the magnificent cathedral of the Honorable and Right Reverend Geheime-General-Ober-Hof-Prädikant, the elect favorite of the fashionable world, appears before the elect company and preaches with emotion upon the text he himself elected: “God hath elected the base things of the world, and the things that are despised. And nobody laughs”
Read your Kierkegaard and watch your Rodderick; whether you agree or not, you’ll sure learn a ton.
