Yes, it would likely ruin salvation history. Ha ha. But perhaps the existence of Isaac after so many years of waiting was proof enough of God’s loyalty so maybe I should ease up a little on Abraham. Still a disturbing story and not sure I can agree with Kierkegaard, but I’ll have to read Fear and Trembling for more context. I definitely resonate with Butler. His final sentences are quite haunting.
Yes, it would likely ruin salvation history. Ha ha. But perhaps the existence of Isaac after so many years of waiting was proof enough of God’s loyalty so maybe I should ease up a little on Abraham. Still a disturbing story and not sure I can agree with Kierkegaard, but I’ll have to read Fear and Trembling for more context. I definitely resonate with Butler. His final sentences are quite haunting.
My point in the essay was not so much a moral one as much as a psychological one. That a completely rationalized world loses something very human, very important. That at it's core, a world that can be sorted out that way is not going to be fully satisfying. Because in making everything at least potentially explicable, by making claims that at the limit mystery will not exist, it desacralizes and banalizes.
Yes, it would likely ruin salvation history. Ha ha. But perhaps the existence of Isaac after so many years of waiting was proof enough of God’s loyalty so maybe I should ease up a little on Abraham. Still a disturbing story and not sure I can agree with Kierkegaard, but I’ll have to read Fear and Trembling for more context. I definitely resonate with Butler. His final sentences are quite haunting.
My point in the essay was not so much a moral one as much as a psychological one. That a completely rationalized world loses something very human, very important. That at it's core, a world that can be sorted out that way is not going to be fully satisfying. Because in making everything at least potentially explicable, by making claims that at the limit mystery will not exist, it desacralizes and banalizes.