A fé como pressuposto para conhecer Deus em Kierkegaard.

Abstract

This research proposes, from Kierkegaardian studies, to analyze "Faith as a presupposition to know God". God is something paradoxical to the understanding. He reveals Himself from an existential communication provided in subjectivity. There is a human will to know God, which means, to relate to Him. Kierkegaard affirms that God is not a historical fact, that can be objectified by intellectual thought. God is a truth given in the contradiction of existence, where each individual needs, excavating its interiority, to relate to Him who is The Absolutely-Different. But it is living the paradox of faith, in its religious stage, having overcome the aesthetic or ethical life condition, that the individual can acquire its subjectivity. We shall introduce, based on the proposed topic, how New Testament Christianity becomes a way for the statement of subjectivity and for a relationship with The Absolutely-Different.