I recently looked back to some old posts on Jake’s blog, where he is discussing/questioning Kierkegaard’s reading of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac. I wish I could say I read through it all, but I was distracted/lost interest before I got very far. One question which jumped out at me was put to Jake by one [...]

I have been reading through Kierkegaard’s book Fear and Trembling recently. I haven’t finished it yet, but it has already brought up some interesting concerns for me. Basically the book uses the story and Abraham’s sacrificing Isaac as a backdrop for a discussion of faith. Kierkegaard see faith as a paradox, something that cannot be [...]