Kierkegaard ends that journal entry for 29th July 1835:
‘Lucky is the man to whom that is possible at every moment of his life…. He has found what the great philosopher … desired, but did not find: that Archimedean point from which he could lift the whole world, the point which for that very reason must lie outside the world, outside the limitations of time and space.’
I have in my memory that picture from school Physics lessons of Archimedes standing out in space with a long pole on a triangular pivot point lifting the world.
But the image Kierkegaard has in mind is that of God, outside of time and space, being the starting point of philosophy, the understanding of existence, knowledge, values and reason. If we start to look for meaning by looking inward, we find only weak humanity; if we start from the outside, with God’s perspective, we find the power to move the world.
Of cause God did not stay outside time and space but became incarnate, and that radically did and still can changed the world.
‘For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life’ (John 3:16 [NIV]
Father help us to have that balance point in our lives.
Guy Mowbray
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