Christians? Can a godly "truth" come from the lips of someone who denies Christ being the Son of God?

Kiekegaard's whole philosophy is about finding a true relationship with God. He felt that this was not in the Christendom of his time, going to church and following rules did not bring you into a relationship with God. Nor did the rationalizations of Philosophers, like Kant and Hegel, who tried to reduce God to a provable concept.

The relationship with God for Kiekegaard is an existential acceptance that you cannot complete the project of the self alone and giving yourself completely to God. It's a leap of faith, a suspension of rationality. It's completely subjective in experience.

Kierkegaard is thought of as an early Postmodern thinker. He is skeptical of scientific truth and critical of rationality. Is K's God himself subjective?

No, I would not say that. Think of it this way... subjectivity is like a sphere of experience. Everything you experience and know enters this sphere.

Objectivity is trying to connect with a communal sphere. Kierkegaard's God is bigger and beyond all the spheres. God is experienced subjectively, but he cannot be reduced to an object of thought within the sphere of rational understanding or historicity.

That's why he describes it as a blind "Leap of Faith" out of rationality and yourself. Kierkegaard's God is personal. It's a God you have a personal relationship with.

Kierkegaard also a Christian though, he also believed God entered historicity in the living contradiction of God-in-man, Jesus. Jesus is shared on some paradoxical level.

Questions like these can easily be answered by using wikipedia, but in the meantime, Kierkegaard was an intellectual coward.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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