Words Worth Noting - May 19, 2023

“In our day the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur has written powerfully about the ‘second naïveté’ that is the mark of true faith. A century earlier, Kierkegaard wrote about ‘the second immediacy,’ the possibility of being a child or youth for the second time.”

Richard John Neuhaus, “Kierkegaard for Grownups,” in First Things #146 (October 2004)