Abstract
My goal in this article is to explicate the perspective of Kierkegaard's pseudonymous author, Johannes Climacus, on the leap to faith, based on Climacus’ presentation inPhilosophical Crumbs.I will argue that for Climacus, duringthe momentin which this leap is a possibility, while God must bring to the individual both the truth and the condition for understanding it, the leap is a decision by the individual, an existential decision tobelieve.In attempting to understand Climacus, it is important to use his definition of faith—namely, that faith is a passion and that it is the condition forunderstandingthe paradox of the Christian conception of the Incarnation (as opposed to a synonym for religiosity), because this allows us to understand why faith is not an act of will but is simultaneously a decision (becausebeliefis a free expression of will).
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