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Man’s quest for eternal happiness, his salvation and freedom from death, is met by Christianity. To be a Christian is to accept the Paradox of Jesus as Christ, man as God: “The characteristic mark of Christianity is the paradox, the absolute paradox.”1
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© 1965 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Garelick, H.M. (1965). The Paradox. In: The Anti-Christianity of Kierkegaard. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0903-9_4
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