Søren Kierkegaard

Christian identity can be understood only as an act of identification with the crucified Christ, to the extent to which one has accepted the proclamation that in him God has identified himself with the godless and those abandoned by God, to whom one belongs oneself.

Christ, in Kierkegaard’s work, reveals, ‘gives’ something we lack. This is paradoxical for what we lack is what we are – a right relation to the reality, to the fundamental truth of human existence and so of our own lives. It is we who are, somehow have become, shadowy and distorted, stuck secretly lacking but not seeing ourselves as lacking and so

we saw in an earlier chapter, Christians believe that Jesus is the Logos that the Greeks intuited—the meaning behind the universe, the reason for life. But unlike the philosophers, Christians believe that the Logos is not a concept to be learned but a person to be known. And therefore we don’t believe in a meaning we must go out and discover but in

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms. Logos is deeper than logic.