Kierkegaard's Dancing Tax Collector

Kierkegaard''s account of the life of faith turns on an astonishing claim: a person living faithfully continually enjoys, and takes part in, everything. What can this assertion actually mean? The pseudonymous author of Fear and Trembling, Johannes de silentio, imagines what such a human being might look like; indeed, as de silentio puts it, ''He looks just like a tax collector''. This seemingly or...