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Søren Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling Søren Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th Century.

In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when God commanded him to offer his son as a human sacrifice. Abraham had a choice to complete the task or to forget it. He resigned himself to the loss of his son, acting according to his faith. In other words, one must be willing to give up all his or her earthly possessions in infinite resignation and must also be willing to give up whatever it is that he or she loves more than God. Abraham had passed the test – his love for God proved greater than anything else in him. And because a good and just Creator would not want a father to kill his son, God intervened at the last moment to prevent the sacrifice.

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Penguin, London, 2005
160 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780141023939 · Fordította: Alastair Hannay
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Penguin, London, 2003
176 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780140444490 · Fordította: Alastair Hannay

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Søren Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling

Aki érteni véli Ábrahám és Izsák történetét, az is találhat további válaszokat, elgondolkodtató szempontokat és a felmerülő problémákat illusztráló, magyarázó példákat.


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No, it is Sarah that is the heroine. I desire to draw near to her as I never have drawn near to any girl or felt tempted in thought to draw near to any girl I have read about. For what love to God it requires to be willing to let oneself be healed when from the beginning one has been thus bungled without one’s fault […]!

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It is great when the poet, presenting his tragic hero before the admiration of men, dares to say, 'Weep for him, for he deserves it.' For it is great to deserve the tears of those who are worthy to shed tears. It is great that the poet dares to keep the crowd in awe, dares to castigate men, requiring that every man examine himself whether he be worthy to weep for the hero. For the waste-water of blubberers is a degradation of the holy. – But greater than all this it is that the knight of faith dares to say even to the noble man who would weep for him, 'Weep not for me, but weep for thyself.'

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He [Abraham] is unable to speak, he speaks no human language. Though he himself understood all the tongues of the world, though his loved ones also understood them, he nevertheless cannot speak – he speaks a divine language…

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One is deeply moved, one longs to be back in those beautiful times, a sweet yearning conducts one to the desired goal, to see Christ wandering in the promised land. One forgets the dread, the distress, the paradox. Was it so easy a matter not to be mistaken? Was it not dreadful that this man who walks among the others – was it not dreadful that He was God? Was it not dreadful to sit at table with Him? Was it so easy a matter to become an Apostle?


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