Expressed Christianity
Saturday, 5 December 2009
The emminently quotable Kierkegaard:
The moment I take Christianity as a doctrine and so indulge my cleverness or profundity or eloquence or my imaginative powers in depicting it: people are very pleased; I am looked upon as a serious Christian.
The moment I begin to express existentially what I say, and consequentially to bring Christianity into reality: it is just as though I had exploded existence--the scandal is there at once.
p.Kierkegard's journals, 1834-1854