Søren Kierkegaard : Fear and Trembling Summary

[@dorettevandertholen-oi5ur]

I used to read this book every existential crisis. But after recent brain hemorrage I cannot read it no more. Your video is wonderful, you capture it well, nice visuals too. Thank you so much for this

[@paolaandreaq]

I´ve heard so many podcast and talks from the highest scholars about Kierkegaard, and they NEVER GET IT! Because they tried to remove his brilliant ideas as far from the bible as they can, explaining him through humanistic reasoning... I was always so frustrated! They recognize the immense intelligence of Kierkegaard but ignoring the source of it. But YOU GET IT! Thank you. I love Kierkegaard very much.

[@freeindeed08]

I experienced the same frustration when I first started reading Kierkegaard. People like his ideas but they ignore how he gets them.

[@curberybible3823]

Wow, bravo! Nearing 60, 17 years a captive of Christ, 16 years a student of philosophy, apologetics and scripture, 6 years an aspiring Knight of Faith, I find you - and you expounding SK, and SK defining perfectly the strata I’ve observed dimly and experienced painfully. Christ destroyed the word “impossible”, and fully illuminated the folly of our philosophy and philology.

[@jasonmartyn9875]

This channel needs more exposure... great job!

[@dreamfyre101]

Thanks brother, I was really struggling with reading and listening to Kierkegaard's works I couldn't complete what I start I almost quit until I find your vidoes. These summaries is all I need actually saves a lot time and you present it soo well thanks a looooot.

[@quentingiesta9534]

You absolutely killed it. This video was phenomenal brother. God bless you bro!

[@mamabear2lkksb]

Knight of infinite resignation here. Through and through.

[@etofok]

Thanks a lot for these Kierkegaard videos! Absolute best content

[@Worldview1985]

I am literally reading the book right now. I’m not going to lie, it’s pretty difficult, but this video helped me understand the concept of it. Thanks very much!

[@aryawidya5149]

awesome man, keep making awesome videos like this. Love the ideas presented with pop art memes.

[@freeindeed08]

Thanks man. The Concept of Anxiety is my next project so stay tuned.

[@jacobborregaard2356]

Reminds me of the story of St Anthony the great, and the doctor. It was revealed to St Anthony, that there was a man rivalling his faith, and to St Anthony’s surprise, the man was no great monk or bishop, but a common doctor. Knights of faith hide in plain sight.

[@davidcoombs89]

Great video, awesome summary. Fear and Trembling sealed the deal for me. I realized the true absurdity of faith.

[@rockycomet4587]

You just won yourself a new subscriber! Can't wait to see more content!

[@markcornelius8802]

Thanks, man! I feel that it might now be possible to wade into one of his books after seeing your summaries.

[@Lewis94w]

This channel is a gold mine!

[@alexjasinski7509]

Just binged all of your videos after seeing your either/or summary. The work you're doing is amazing, man. Keep it up! Also congrats on 100 subs

[@freeindeed08]

Thank you!

[@jaydoran1321]

These videos are extraordinary.

[@georgenaugles5039]

Thanks, this was part of my year of Great Works of Western Culture at Stanford. I appreciated this summary you provided, video clips were cool.

[@MonteCarloHD]

God bless you sir for unpacking this for my simple mind to understand!

[@lonewolf6327]

Thank you for this, brother. This is truly spectacular. God bless you and your family 🙏

[@DamienZshadow]

I am an atheist who adores Kirkegaard's work. I feel like a Knight of Infinite Resignation wanting to be a Knight of Faith, but I lack any real belief in such divinity. Instead, in teaching children, I find faith in myself and others to see the unknown as a potential for possibility to trust in. My leap of faith is in myself and I commit to seeing just what I am capable of. His imagery of a dancer is very applicable. As I am a gymnastics instructor, I am very familiar with the difference in sticking the landing versus not.

[@manosko6269]

Great analysis and presentation of a great work of a great philosopher.

[@marktravis793]

This is amazing. Thank you for this spot interpretation. Well done lad. Keep the faith. Keep up the great work. I am subscribed

[@marktravis793]

818

[@johnemerick5860]

Great by making this video! Haha subbed.

[@mattatyo]

Beautiful. Thank you!

[@satnamo]

De knight of faith is a dancer with high elevation.

[@dheerajbaji8990]

amazing explanation, good comprehensive analysis and good presentation. Video graphical explanation is so vivid and easy to understand. God keep this work up dear brother.

[@bluwng]

This was awesome , thanks. Subscribing.

[@Drakoo-ajw]

Thanks for the summary mate!!

[@albingeorgebenny9938]

oh My God........... just amazing!

[@michaelnathan3836]

Excellent let me try...God bless me.

[@Ageratos-Henosis]

Great work this made me read more Soren books. btw would Gabriel Marcel happen to be worthy of a video? God Bless.

[@freeindeed08]

Thanks! I am working on "The Sickness Unto Death" and possibly another book first but I can look into it. Do you have any works, in particular, you would like to see?

[@Ageratos-Henosis]

@@freeindeed08 No particular works as i have recently stumbled on this interesting chap & I've just started reading man against mass society so most likely will delve deeper into his other works. I've herd good things about Gabriel Marcel and how he was influenced by Soren. there's not much about him on youtube. i think i herd somewhere that Satre took most of the popularity away Marcel by copying Existentialism and wording it. and i herd that Marcel survived both world wars which must've been tough. thanks for the quick reply brother. all the best for your family and God Bless.

[@freeindeed08]

@@Ageratos-Henosis I will look into it for sure. I did some surface level reading about him and it looked really promising. Christian existentialism is far more interesting to me than secular existentialism. I'll do some research and see what I can come up with.

[@demnuh]

Knight of Infinite Resignation is the Sigma male. Knight of Faith is simply GIGACHAD.

[@patrickdufrene5371]

Great job!

[@PT5-Shorts]

Very good video

[@oreocarlton3343]

Same motive is in Job! When he and his friends try to REASON why is he experiencing such punishments then end up to only confusion, God appears in the end and rebukes them for it.

[@evanfield5016]

great vid!!

[@kangarooninja2594]

What's the name of that drawing at 15:18 during the description of the Knight of Faith?

[@freeindeed08]

Knight, death, and the devil by Albrecht Dürer. It’s an engraving from 1513. One of my favorites.

[@kangarooninja2594]

@@freeindeed08 Holy crap, I drew that as a kid! I wasn't sure until you mentioned the name. I found it in some old book when I was like 10, thought it looked cool, and drew a surprisingly decent copy of it free hand. Wow, thank you so much for getting back to me, I appreciate it very much.

[@AftreGaol]

Charles stanley say god never changes . I believe what gramps says

[@HolographicThoughts]

The thoughts were presented well, but I found the visual complements very distracting. I can focus on the discussion better without it. So this got better by minimizing the vid for me anyway.

[@freeindeed08]

Yeah, they're hit or miss for people. They help me stay focused with my zoomer brain.

[@daroay]

Name of the background tune?

[@sc4rlotte456]

just started watching these videos, and I was curious about the knight of faith. I have felt like god has told me to do certain things that could result in my death, but would it really be the best option to listen to god in those moments? I mean, what if I listened to him years ago, and then died. I wouldn't even be here to write these comments. Idk, scary stuff.

[@freeindeed08]

I would say it depends on what He is calling you to do. If it’s something like, “jump in front of this car.” I would be more wary of that. If it’s a call to stand up for your faith in front of people that may kill you for doing so then that would be a much easier decision in my opinion. Test all spirits by the word of God and that should be some help.

[@sc4rlotte456]

@@freeindeed08 yeah it was stuff more like jumping in front of a car, stuff that would cause a meaningless death. how do you think I can determine if a message is actually from god? thank you for the response btw

[@freeindeed08]

@@sc4rlotte456 I would say the best way is to compare any thought we have to the word of God. If it aligns with God's word then we can be confident it's from God. For example, if we had a thought of throwing ourselves in front of a car we can see in God's word that suicide is wrong and rule out the possibility that God told us to do it. The reason why the child sacrifice of Isaac does not apply here is because of the previous promises of God saying that all nations will be blessed through Isaac. That and the fact that God cannot tell a lie meant that Abraham by virtue of his faith was able to reason that God would have to do something miraculous to save his son from death. That's what happened so Abraham's trust in God's word gave him the ability to discern if it was really from God or not.

[@sc4rlotte456]

@@freeindeed08 thank you (:

[@christophersnedeker2065]

CS Lewis said God cannot do the self contradictory. That God can do the scientificly impossible but not the logically impossible.

[@anilthapa5631]

In sanatan dharma we call it Tamsik, Rajsik and Satvik.

[@werimutamihana1901]

My question is why would God test Abraham's faith by requiring of him to commit a sin (murder) in first place. Isn't that counterintuitive to God's nature. That's why I'm so confused n gave up on fear n trembling and maybe Christianity idk🤔

[@freeindeed08]

I think boiling down the command to murder his son might be a little too simplified. Abraham had previously been promised by God that his descendants would come through the child of promise (Isaac). This meant that if Abraham killed his son then the promise could never be fulfilled, thus making God a liar and therefore not God because God cannot tell a lie (Hebrews 6:18). Hebrews 11:19 says that Abraham had faith in God's previous promise and reasoned that for the previous promise to be true, God would have to raise his son from the dead. It surely would have been a very difficult thing for Abraham to do and that's why Kierkegaard wrote the book in the first place. But ultimately the picture of the story of Abraham and Isaac points to what God did with His own Son, Jesus. Jesus was sacrificed for all as the substitutionary lamb. This can be seen in the story of Abraham's test of faith when God provides a ram in the place of Isaac.

[@christophersnedeker2065]

@@freeindeed08 I honestly wonder what would have happened if Abraham said "I won't do it because I know you'd never want me to do something like that" God couldn't insist that he really wanted him to kill his son because in reality he didn't.

[@freeindeed08]

@@christophersnedeker2065 it’s interesting to think about but like I said, the true test was whether or not Abraham would trust God’s previous promises or not, even to the point of suspending what’s physically possible.

[@christophersnedeker2065]

@@freeindeed08 I know God can do the physically impossible but can God do the logically impossible such as creating a 4 sided triangle or a married bachelor? Here's video I was talking about kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooTNpJiol7yfkLc

[@nicholasamore1508]

@@christophersnedeker2065I believe an idea similar to this is explored in one of the problematas. He could’ve reasoned his way out of this, but then that would mean Abraham is not a Knight of Faith. Faith, in part, means transcending reason itself.

[@christophersnedeker2065]

I recently came across a mistake that's in many versions of the Bible such as the Orthodox Septuagint, the Catholic Latin Vulgate and the protestant King James version all say God tempted Abraham when it talks about the call to sacrifice Isaac. But the epistle of James says God doesn't tempt anyman. I have a problem because I can't protestent because I don't think scripture alone and faith alone is consistent with the Bible and I don't know if I can be an Orthodox or a Catholic because they use flawed Bibles. I was leaning towards the Coptic Orthodox church but they use the Septuagint. Even the apostles used the Septuagint so maybe it's alright to use a flawed Bible. I had a bit of a crisis of faith and was planning to revive the cult of the unknown God mentioned in Acts 17 but now I think I still want to be a Christian. But can I honestly call myself a Christian if I can't whole heartedly agree with the Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant churches?

[@freeindeed08]

I covered this topic in my Bible contradiction video. The KJV translates the word to tempt but the most common and arguably the best translation is test. Most English versions use test.

[@christophersnedeker2065]

@@freeindeed08 That what I thought. I thought the Greek word to tempt and the Hebrew word for what God did to Abraham don't mean the same thing. However in Hebrews Paul used the word peirazó for what God did to Abraham and James used the same word peirazó for what God never does. Do you think I can genuinely call myself a Christian if I don't believe in biblical inerrancy? If not do you think God would rather I be honest and not call myself a Christian if I don't think the Bible is interrent? Or do you think would God rather I defy all logic and be a kind of Christian post modernist saying self contradictory things can be true? I still believe Jesus rose from the dead and that there is a God and agree with a lot of Christian philosophy. CS Lewis said those who reject the devinity Christ out of honest mistake can still be saved because Jesus said those who speak a word against the son of man will be forgiven but unto him that blaspheme against the holy spirit it shall not be forgiven.

[@freeindeed08]

@@christophersnedeker2065 I believe that calling upon the name of Christ as your savior and putting your faith in Him saves. Jesus affirms the testimony of the scriptures far too often to not also believe in them. He is constantly referring to them and quoting them. The issue with the temptation in James and Abraham really boils down to God never intending for Abraham to actually kill his son. James says God cannot tempt anyone with evil. If God knew He was going to stop Abraham then is it really evil? That’s for you to decide.

[@christophersnedeker2065]

@@freeindeed08 Does James say God doesn't tempt anyone with evil or that God doesn't tempt anyone period? I hope you're right but I think we may be sophists splitting hairs here. Even if I were to give up biblical inerrancy that wouldn't mean just chucking the Bible in the trash, just accepting it's not perfect. I heard one Christian deny biblical inerrancy by pointing to the fact many versions of the Bible exist and they can't all be right. I've been considering becoming such a diehard fundamentalist that I reject logic and the law of non contradiction in a final bid to hold on to my faith. But if I did this I couldn't interpret the Bible without using logic. I'd wind up saying things like "just because Jesus is devine doesn't mean Jesus is devine" and you can't really do anything like that.

[@freeindeed08]

@@christophersnedeker2065 “When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone;” ‭‭James‬ ‭1:13‬ ‭NIV‬‬ It seems to me that the connotation here is tempting anyone with evil. Also biblical inerrancy has nothing to do with modern translations. It has to do with original manuscripts.

[@patrickdufrene5371]

Breau job

[@Ledhoven]

Hey Hegel hold my bagel 🥯

[@oreocarlton3343]

His critique is basically a critigue of faithless cultural christianity we even see today in conservative circles (Circles of infinite resignation)...? Not that their positions like anti-abortion are wrong but they are mostly in-authentic to true christianity based on faith and not on moral reasoning.

[@bluwng]

My wife is a knight of Faith. I am to confrontational, ughh.

[@georgenaugles5039]

how can knight mythology keep getting away with murder?...violent tech of the day is pictured along with symbols of religions that claim to love, accept, and make peace

[@tonibael]

29, knight of faith and I'm Jewish 😆

[@John-nz6jb]

Verbiage. Hearsay opinion 😢

[@PierreRousselot]

If I may, I think it's worth noting that the way this video frames F & T and the role of the pseudonymous author is less than accurate. Johannes de Silentio is not presented as a Hegelian; indeed, Johannes wastes no time in mocking Hegel in the opening Preface of the work. Johannes is something like a "cultural bystander" who concedes that he isn't a philosopher and so pokes fun at the chic philosopical rationalism of contemporary Europe. He is more drawn to the ancients but also acknowledges that he can't understand the Abraham story; so he exists in a state of reverent perplexity about the nature of Christian faith. (He at least takes faith very seriously, even if he doesn't claim to possess it.) So, to say that Johannes, as a Hegelian, finds faith to be "absurd" also gives the wrong impression about faith, given that Johannes isn't speaking as a Hegelian. Johannes finds faith to be absurd precisely because, for Kierkegaard himself, faith in inherently paradoxical and can't in principle be understood through the mediating universality of reason (Hegelian or otherwise)--none of which, of course, is a mark against faith. Yes, Hegel would find Kierkegaard's account of faith to be "absurd," but absurd in a strictly pejorative sense. Moreover, while Hegel's understanding of "God" isn't irrelevant--and, to be clear, Hegel doesn't believe in a specifically transcendent God at all (changing or otherwise)--it's Hegel's account of philosophy and Sittlichkiet ("eithical life") that are more proximate touchstones for F & T. Hegel thought that history and all proper human conduct could be explained rationally through a universal concept or logos. So the view that someone could be asked by God to do something against reason, against the universal obligations imposed on all, and against the good of the social whole is unintelligible for Hegel (and the same would be true for Kant, who's reading of the Abraham story is quite opposed to Kierkegaard's). For Kierkegaard, the individual's passionate commitment to the singular God might demand an act that fundamentally cannot be explained through language or concepts; one's relationship to God, as personal in this way, cannot be translated in rational terms.

[@edithvandyck602]

Please take the music away.

[@freeindeed08]

No