#LEAP OF FAITH PLUS#

Religious truth concerns the individual and the individual alone, and it is the personal mode of appropriation, the process of realization, the subjective dynamism that counts.

It is another case of “act accomplishing itself.” If God held truth in one hand and the eternal pursuit of it in the other, He would choose the second hand according to Lessing. Kierkegaard agreed with Lessing, a German dynamist, that truth lies in the search for an object, not in the object sought. This is how the leap was described in 1950 and then in 1960. In the actual process of thinking, we have the leap by which we arrive at the understanding of an idea or an author. Every transition from the detail of an empirical induction to the ideality and universality of law, is a leap. In the same manner, every causal system presupposes an external environment as the condition of change. It is therefore transcendent and non-rational, and its coming into existence can only be apprehended as a leap. The change from motion to rest, or vice versa, is a transition which cannot be logically construed this is the basic principle of Zeno's dialectic, and is also expressed in Newton's laws of motion, since the external force by which such change is effected is not a consequence of the law, but is premised as external to the system with which we start.

#LEAP OF FAITH PLUS#

H2 plus O becomes water, and water becomes ice, by a leap. Swenson described the leap in his 1916 article The Anti-Intellectualism of Kierkegaard using some of Kierkegaard's ideas. He asked his contemporaries if any of them had reached a conclusion about anything or did every new premise change their convictions.ĭavid F. The externality is the watchman who awakens the sleeper the externality is the solicitous mother who calls one the externality is the roll call that brings the soldier to his feet the externality is the reveille that helps one to make the great effort but the absence of the externality can mean that the inwardness itself calls inwardly to a person - alas - but it can also mean that the inwardness will fail to come.' The 'most dreadful thing of all is a personal existence that cannot coalesce in a conclusion,' according to Kierkegaard. He says, 'where Christianity wants to have inwardness, worldly Christendom wants outwardness, and where Christianity wants outwardness, worldly Christendom wants inwardness.' But, on the other hand, he also says: 'The less externality, the more inwardness if it is truly there but it is also the case that the less externality, the greater the possibility that the inwardness will entirely fail to come. Instead, Kierkegaard is in favor of the internal movement of faith. He is against people's thinking about religion all day without ever doing anything but he is also against external shows and opinions about religion. Kierkegaard wants to stop ' thinking's self-reflection' and that is the movement that constitutes a leap. But this thinking about itself never accomplishes anything.” Kierkegaard says thinking should serve by thinking something. “Thinking can turn toward itself in order to think about itself and skepticism can emerge. In his book Concluding Unscientific Postscript, he describes the core part of the leap of faith: the leap. A leap of faith according to Kierkegaard involves circularity insofar as the leap is made by faith. The phrase is commonly attributed to Søren Kierkegaard however, he never used the term, as he referred to a qualitative leap.

Leap of faith