The great Danish theologian Søren Kierkegaard wrote extensively about how, in the realm of faith, absurdity has a central, even essential place. Faith is not about reason—in fact, reason obstructs faith, and it’s not until we set aside the former that the latter’s possibility becomes clear. In his book Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard writes about the mind-twisting challenge that such divine trust presents: “For who would not easily understand that it was absurd,” he says, “but who would understand that one could then believe it?”
