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Fear and Trembling (original Danish title: Frygt og Bæven) is a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard, published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio (Latin for John of the Silence). The title is a reference to a line from Philippians 2:12 , which says to “continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.”
The knight of faith (Danish: troens ridder) is an individual who has placed complete faith in himself and in God and can act freely and independently from the world. The 19th-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard vicariously discusses the knight of faith in several of his pseudonymous works, with the most in-depth and detailed critique exposited in Fear and Trembling and in Repetition.
Where then do we find guidance if we do not work out our own soul’s salvation with fear and trembling, for thus we become earnest? (See also Works of Love, Hong 1995 p. 179) Soren Kierkegaard, Thoughts on Crucial Situations in Life, (1845) Swenson translation (1941) p. 65-66
Soren Kierkegaard, Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits Hong p. 295-296. ... Should there not, ought there not, must there not, be fear and trembling till the last?
The Sickness unto Death (Danish: Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. A work of Christian existentialism, the book is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair, which he equates with the Christian concept of sin, which he terms "the sin of despair".
Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling 1843, Hong p. 66-67 The object of faith is the actuality of another person; its relation is an infinite interestedness. The object of faith is not a doctrine, for then the relation is intellectual, and the point is not to bungle it but to reach the maximum of the intellectual relation.
Kierkegaard published Two Upbuilding Discourses three months after the publication of his book Either/Or, which ended without a conclusion to the argument between A, the aesthete, and B, the ethicist, as to which is the best way to live one's life. Kierkegaard hoped the book would transform everything for both of them into inwardness. [1]
Kierkegaard described his longing for God, for that "one thing he needed" for his happiness, in Fear and Trembling. He said, I am convinced that God is love, for me this thought has a primal lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakable happy; when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than the lover for the object of its love.