“By looking to the glory of the passing years and successive generations as demonstrations of the truth of its religion, Christendom has done away with the sharp shock of having to make a decision that -this- man is -God-, and thus, for Kierkegaard, has done away with Christianity altogether.” GodJesusDecisionChristianityHistoryChristendom Book:Kierkegaard's Critique of Christian Nationalism Source: Kierkegaard's Critique of Christian Nationalism
“When considering -the- event of history, namely the incarnation, Kierkegaard does not de-historicize this event to make faith more palatable to a sophisticated modern audience. Instead, employing contemporaneity he accentuates the historicity of the event, and then identifies our response to it as -either- faith -or- offence. In this way coming to have faith, and thus becoming a whole, authentic person, is essentially and inextricably tied up with the attitude towards an historical event.” FaithHistoryOffenseIncarnation Book:Kierkegaard's Critique of Christian Nationalism Source: Kierkegaard's Critique of Christian Nationalism