Faraday vs Kierkegaard: can the leap of faith be measured?

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FARADAY vs KIERKEGAARD go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

FARADAY

We agree, Soren, on the deepest point: no crucible weighs the soul, and I never confused my equations with my creed - faith was a separate covenant I would not put on the bench.

KIERKEGAARD

Yes, and I'd press it further - if faith could be demonstrated it would cease to be faith and become mere knowledge; the truth that saves must be held in passionate inwardness, not proven at arm's length.

FARADAY

But here we part: the same mind that trusts God can also trust that Nature is faithful, lawful, readable - I found in the ordered field a reason to be reverent, not a rival to reverence.

KIERKEGAARD

And there is my worry, Michael: the more we make the world tidy and calculable, the more we tempt the crowd to think the eternal is one more object to inspect - but before God the single soul stands alone, and no field, however elegant, can take that leap for him.

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