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Posts Tagged: god
October 5, 2009
Pitching Parabola: Parables of Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard
Kernels and Shells: To what may The relation of God and the world be compared? This is the question which led Soren Kierkegaard toward the following parabolic expression:
“If two men were to eat nuts together, and the one liked only the shell, the other only the kernel, one may say that they match one another well. What the world rejects, casts away, despises, namely, the sacrificed man, the kernel – precisely upon that God sets the greatest store, and treasures it with greater zeal than does the world that which it loves with the greatest passion.” Read more…