The Object of Faith – Kierkegaard
The object of faith is not a doctrine, for then the relationship would be merely intellectual. The object of faith is not a teacher with a doctrine, for when the teacher has a doctrine, the doctrine is more important than the teacher and the relationship is again intellectual.
The object of the faith is the reality of the teacher – that the teacher really exists. The object of faith is hence the God-Man in the sense of his existence.
Søren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846)
