Study On The Faith View Of Kierkegaard

Soren Kierkegaard is a great thinker in the history of western social thought. He has a deep influence on the development of philosophy, theology, and literature above the twentieth century. In China, Kierkegaard was mostly treated as a precursor of modern existentialism. Actually, he insisted on the need for individual decision and leaps of faith in the search for religious truth, he was primarily a seeker of religious truth.Besides preface and conclusion, this paper consists of 4 chapters. The first chapter is about the life and worksof Kierkegaard. Chapter 2 leads into his some important opinions about what is faith. And the third chapter gives a brief account of his views on why faith is needed. Chapter 4 infers how to be a pure Christian from Kierkegaard's some important opinions about the inner life of a Christian.