Fideism

Posted by Nathanael Szobody on

All humans are subjective beings. There does not exist within the scope of human experience anything purely objective, for all creation is fundamentally relational, and all humans are personally and emotionally relational.

Reason is not objective. It is the part of a person which can operate almost entirely apart from emotion, but it is not purely objective. Its nature is however a constant among mentally healthy humans and is, therefore, universal

Nathanael Szobody

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Husband, father, and working for Christ's kingdom in Chad.

Comments ( 2 )

  1. Cindy
    "Christianity fastens the end by means of the paradox"
    I think I agree, explin that in English.
  2. Nathanael
    Cindy, There are many doctrines in scripture that seem to bring about an apparent contradiction. For example; we are sinners and serve the "law of sin and death" in our members, and yet we are "saints" or "holy ones" in Christ.

    Also, Christ says that he who saves his life will lose it and he who loses his life for Christ's sake will find it. The cross itself is a great paradox in that the creator of life dies--albeit to rise and give new life in conquering death.

    Kierkegaard is speaking here of the nature of Christian faith as seen in the life of Abraham, particularly in his willingness to scrifice Isaac. He believes and does not waver in his belief, and yet the very promise that he believes is that the one he is about to kill is the one through whom the promised "seed" will come. This letting go of everything in this life while clinging to everything that God promises in this life and the next--even when it seems a contradiction--is a paradox that is the essence of Christian faith.

    As my friend Chris says, it is the "already-not-yet" of scripture. We are citizens of a heavenly kingdom by faith in Christ. And yet we still live in this earthly and fallen world with all of its ramification for our struggle with the flesh. For this reason we need not speculate endlessly about the how and why of this world; we know its beginning and we know its end, so we may let the fleshly and the heavenly rest in paradox until Christ unites all things in himself.

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