Fear And Trembling
Amy Mantravadi
The Church Is Fracturing, Revolution Is Brewing, And Society Is Changing Rapidly. Three Authors Who Shaped This New World With Their Pens—martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, And Philipp Melanchthon—will Now Be Shaped By It In Turn. When The Pope And King Henry Viii Of England Pressure Erasmus To Take A Public Stand Against Luther, Both Authors Will Be Forced To Wrestle With Literal And Figurative Demons. Erasmus Is Haunted By His Illegitimate Birth. Luther Struggles With The Rejection Of The Church And His Own Father. Melanchthon, Luther's Associate And A Long-time Admirer Of Erasmus, Is Increasingly Caught In The Middle, Forced To Choose Between Two Men He Venerates Or Be Torn Asunder. The Three Men's Lives And Fears Are Woven Together As Events Spiral Out Of Their Collective Control.
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“An old proverb fetched from the outward and visible world says: "Only the man that works gets the bread." Strangely enough this proverb does not aptly apply in that world to which it expressly belongs. For the outward world is subjected to the law of imperfection, and again and again the experience is repeated that he too who does not work gets the bread, and that he who sleeps gets it more abundantly than the man who works. In the outward world everything is made payable to the bearer, this world is in bondage to the law of indifference, and to him who has the ring, the spirit of the ring is obedient, whether he be Noureddin or Aladdin, and he who has the world's treasure, has it, however he got it.”
Fear and Trembling • Soren Kierkegaard
“Not merely in the realm of commerce but in the world of ideas as well our age is organizing a regular clearance sale. Everything is to be had at such a bargain that it is questionable whether in the end there is anybody who will want to bid. Every speculative price-fixer who conscientiously directs attention to the significant march of modern philosophy, every Privatdocent, tutor, and student, every crofter and cottar goes further. Perhaps it would be untimely and ill-timed to ask them where they are going.”
Fear and Trembling • Soren Kierkegaard