RT Article
T1 From the Shadows of Mt. Moriah: Approaching Faith in Fear and Trembling
JF Religious studies and theology
VO 34
IS 1
SP 41
OP 52
A1 Rogers, Chandler D. ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1837297924
AB Johannes de Silentio, the pseudonymous author of Fear and Trembling, purports to be an individual who admires faith but cannot attain to its unearthly standards. The discontinuity between Kierkegaard, who self-identified as a religious author, and de Silentio, who approaches Abraham in self-doubt, is apparent—and as a result, some have argued for an utter dissociation between these two authors. I argue that such dissociation undermines the potency of the work, especially with regard to the perspective on faith presented therein. The significance of de Silentio’s perspective becomes clear when set against the backdrop of Kierkegaard’s view of the relationship between anxiety and faith; in this light, de Silentio turns out to represent an early stage of the individual’s religious development, and Kierkegaard turns out to have recently surpassed this stage before writing the work.
K1 Fear and Trembling
K1 Johannes de Silentio
K1 Søren Kierkegaard
K1 Anxiety
K1 Faith
DO 10.1558/rsth.v34i2.26011