Nonsense, inconsistency and nullifying treatment of reason – these are all contents that can be found in many parts of Kierkegaard`s writing on faith. However, all these apparent anti-rational segments ought to be read differently – as a matter of fact, the author himself saw them as a tool to a more genuine understanding of truth. The aim of this work is to find ways of reading and interpreting Kierkegaard in order to provide a possibility for his initial incompatibilities to be viewed as part of a rational compatibility. The first part of the work is aimed at finding sections that show the Danish author as one who repudiates reason. The second part tries to reconstruct Kierkegaard`s pathway from what appears to be irrational to that which is his main goal – to help his reader come closer to the truth. At the foremost is the analysis of the hermeneutic key, which is presented by the author himself as a methodical approach and which is crucial for his initial irrationalities to be viewed in a broader sense. The third part of this work is aimed at broadening these findings with firm references so as to show aspects in which Kierkegaard`s writing on faith could be closely linked to more rational approaches in philosophy of religion. Kierkegaard`s faith is thus revealed as an unusual and paradoxical rationality, not missing out the use of irrational components to find its own way to the truth.
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