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Leap of Faith : Memoirs of an Unexpected Life is a book written by Queen Noor of Jordan, wife of the late Jordanian King Hussein I.Sharing a personal perspective on the past three decades of world history, Leap of Faith highlights Queen Noor's views on Islam and the West; the challenges of rearing her family; her work as Queen and humanitarian activist; and her struggles to protect her husband ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Books. Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy ...
A leap of faith, according to Kierkegaard, involves circularity as the leap is made by faith. [5] In his book Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard describes the leap: "Thinking can turn toward itself in order to think about itself and skepticism can emerge. But this thinking about itself never accomplishes anything."
Kierkegaard posited three stages of human existence: the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious, the latter coming after what is often called the leap of faith. [ citation needed ] Kierkegaard argued that the universe is fundamentally paradoxical , and that its greatest paradox is the transcendent union of God and humans in the person of ...
The book discusses in detail notions like "leap of faith" (or, to be more precise, "leap to faith") and "indirect communication".In other words, Kierkegaard emphasizes the idea that belief in God cannot and should not be rational in the sense that it cannot possibly be proved conclusively that God exists or that Christianity is true.
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (/ ˈ s ɒr ə n ˈ k ɪər k ə ɡ ɑːr d / SORR-ən KEER-kə-gard, US also /-ɡ ɔːr /-gor; Danish: [ˈsɶːɐn ˈɔˀˌpyˀ ˈkʰiɐ̯kəˌkɒˀ] ⓘ; [1] 5 May 1813 – 11 November 1855 [2]) was a Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first Christian existentialist philosopher.
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mon., who lost his reelection bid last month, expressed openness to preemptive pardons. “What I would do is take a look and see if they’re meritorious,” Tester told USA TODAY.
Through the discipline of resignation, aiming at an absolute commitment to the highest good, through the discipline of suffering, through the consciousness of guilt, the way leads step by step to a more profound pathos, until by a leap we reach the absolute maximum of subjectivity in the Christian consciousness of sin, with its imperative need ...