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Fear and trembling repetition, c.1-2

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Fear and Trembling is probably Kierkegaard's clearest and most vivid interpretation of faith, seen through the story of Abraham and Isaac. God has asked Abraham, who with his wife Sarah has waited and prayed for a son for 70 years, to sacrifice that son. Abraham obeys, but it is the tension within Abraham, the tension between ethical duty and the requirements of faith, that Kierkegaard focuses on. Faith emerges as what allows the individual to transcend the life of just anyone, the "universal", through an absolutely individual relationship with God..

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201 KIE f.1-2

Publisher

Princeton : Princeton University Press., 1983

Collation

xxxix,420p.; 22 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-691-02026-4

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201

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CHRISTIANITY

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