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Part 1. Johannes de Silentio. Faith as the task of a lifetime -- Faith as trust in divine promises -- Faith as obedience to divine commands -- Interlude : three questions in medias res -- Faith as the teleological suspension of reason -- Faith as the highest passion -- Part 2. Johannes Climacus. Faith as the reception of revelation -- Faith as the happy passion that overcomes offense -- Faith as the passionate appropriation of an objective uncertainty -- Faith as a leap and a striving -- Faith as a striving pathos that goes against reason -- Part 3. Anti-Climacus. Faith as willing to be oneself : before God -- Faith as contemporaneity with Christ : without offense.

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