<P> A leap of faith, in its most commonly used meaning, is the act of believing in or accepting something outside the boundaries of reason . </P> <P> The phrase is commonly attributed to Søren Kierkegaard; however, he never used the term, as he referred to a qualitative leap . A leap of faith according to Kierkegaard involves circularity insofar as the leap is made by faith . In his book Concluding Unscientific Postscript, he describes the core part of the leap of faith: the leap . "Thinking can turn toward itself in order to think about itself and skepticism can emerge . But this thinking about itself never accomplishes anything ." Kierkegaard says thinking should serve by thinking something . Kierkegaard wants to stop "thinking's self - reflection" and that is the movement that constitutes a leap . He is against people thinking about religion all day without ever doing anything; but he is also against external shows and opinions about religion . Instead, Kierkegaard is in favor of the internal movement of faith . He says, "where Christianity wants to have inwardness, worldly Christendom wants outwardness, and where Christianity wants outwardness, worldly Christendom wants inwardness ." But, on the other hand, he also says: "The less externality, the more inwardness if it is truly there; but it is also the case that the less externality, the greater the possibility that the inwardness will entirely fail to come . The externality is the watchman who awakens the sleeper; the externality is the solicitous mother who calls one; the externality is the roll call that brings the soldier to his feet; the externality is the reveille that helps one to make the great effort; but the absence of the externality can mean that the inwardness itself calls inwardly to a person - alas - but it can also mean that the inwardness will fail to come ." The "most dreadful thing of all is a personal existence that cannot coalesce in a conclusion," according to Kierkegaard . He asked his contemporaries if any of them had reached a conclusion about anything or did every new premise change their convictions . </P>

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