Editing Leap of faith (section)

== Background ==
[[File:Kierkegaard portrait.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Kierkegaard at his desk]]The phrase is commonly attributed to [[Søren Kierkegaard]], though he never used the term "leap of faith", but instead referred to a "qualitative leap".<ref>{{Citation |last=Hannay |first=Alastair |title=Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Crumbs |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511626760.005 |date=2009 |pages=1–2 |access-date=2023-11-28 |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/cbo9780511626760.005 |isbn=978-0-511-62676-0 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

The implication of taking a leap of faith can, depending on the context, carry positive or negative connotations, as some feel it is a virtue to be able to believe in something without evidence while others feel it is foolishness, as is presented in [[Fear and Trembling]] on Abraham's figure when God demands the sacrifice of his son Isaac: <blockquote>If Abraham had doubted as he stood there on Mount Moriah, if irresolute he had looked around, if he had happened to spot the ram before drawing the knife, if God had allowed him to sacrifice it instead of Isaac—then he would have gone home, everything would have been the same, he would have had Sarah, he would have kept Isaac, and yet how changed!<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kierkegaard |first=Soren |title=Fear And Trembling |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1983 |isbn=1-400810-329 |pages=22}}</ref></blockquote>