Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio

Soren Kierkegaard; Alastair Hannay (Translation by)

In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in Genesis in which Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son at God's command. Believing Abraham's unreserved obedience to be the essential leap of f...