Miguel de Unamuno's Quest for Faith: A Kierkegaardian Understanding of Unamuno’s Struggle to Believe

For the secular, Williams’s definition of faith – it uncovers a world larger than you thought, it stops you denying, resisting, ignoring aspects of what is real – could easily be applied to the study of literature, or to philosophy, or to psychoanalysis. Indeed, Williams gives as good a description as you might want of the aims of a liberal educati

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living religious faith is rather achieved through a double movement, where you renounce the cares that follow from being finite and instead place your trust in God. Even though you are starving, you believe that you will be nourished, even though you are dying, you believe that you will live forever, and even though you are killing your son, you be

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A man believes implicitly, because he adopts a proposition without inquiry. He doubts as soon as he is assailed by the objections which his inquiries may have aroused. But he frequently succeeds in satisfying these doubts, and then he begins to believe afresh: he no longer lays hold on a truth in its most shadowy and uncertain form, but he sees it

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