Re: Soren Kierkegaard on Faith and Reason

Megan R. wrote:

> Faith is a restless thing. It is health, but stronger and more violent
> than the most burning fever. 
> 

Resignation by itself does not require faith. It has only to comply with 
the eternal. It renounces, but does not gain. Faith, however, does not 
renounce anything. On the contrary, in faith I receive everything. Herein 
lies the crucial difference. It takes a purely human courage to renounce 
the world of temporality in order to win eternity; but it takes a humble 
and paradoxical courage to take hold of what is temporal and to do so for 
the sake of the eternal. That courage is the courage of faith. Through 
faith Abraham did not renounce his claim on Isaac. No, through his faith
he 
received Isaac.