Kierkegaard’s Question In Fear and Trembling (1983), a phenomenology of faith,

Kierkegaard leaves the common ground of the everyday experience of faith. We agree that we live by faith. “We believe that the chairs we sit on will support us. We believe that the weigh scales are accu rate. We believe... “ We make faith appear incidental to the taken for-grantedness of everyday life. Such faith needs no father to care for it. Yet Abraham was the father of faith. Kierkegaard journeys to the estranged ground of the literary work of art, the Biblical account of the faith of Abraham. He fulfills the lit erary work of art by being there. “Finally, he forgot everything else because of it; his soul had but one wish, to see Abraham, but one 254 longing, to have witnessed that event ” (Kierkegaard, 1983, p. 9). “Occupied ” by the “shudder of an idea ” (p. 9), Kierkegaard becomes the open place of a question: Who can understand Abraham? And God did tempt Abraham... And He said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah