• *Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Historical Introduction, pg. ix*Preface, pg. 3*On The Occasion Of A Confession, pg. 7*Preface, pg. 157*I. [To Be Contented with Being a Human Being], pg. 159*II. [How Glorious It Is to Be a Human Being], pg. 183*III. [What Blessed Happiness Is Promised in Being a Human Being], pg. 201*Preface, pg. 215*I. [What Meaning and What Joy There Are in the Thought of Following Christ], pg. 217*II. [But How Can the Burden Be Light If the Suffering Is Heavy?], pg. 230*III. [The Joy of It That the School of Sufferings Educates for Eternity], pg. 248*IV. [The Joy of It That in Relation to God a Person Always Suffers as Guilty], pg. 264*V. [The Joy of It That It Is Not the Road That Is Hard but That Hardship Is the Road], pg. 289*VI. [The Joy of It That the Happiness of Eternity Still Outweighs Even the Heaviest Temporal Suffering], pg. 306*VII. [The Joy of It That Bold Confidence Is Able in Suffering to Take Power from the World and Has the Power to Change Scorn into Honor, Downfall into Victory], pg. 321*Key to References, pg. 343*Original Common Title Page and Part Title Pages, pg. 346*Selected Entries from Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers Pertaining to Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, pg. 354*Acknowledgments, pg. 397*Collation of Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits in the Danish Editions of Kierkegaard's Collected Works, pg. 401*Notes, pg. 405*Bibliographical Note, pg. 423*Index, pg. 425*Advisory Board, pg. 443

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