119. The belief that faith goes beyond belief is one . . .

The belief that faith goes beyond belief is one of the beliefs that faith goes beyond-somewhat as the truth that self-understanding goes beyond assenting to general truths is itself a general truth (d. NTM: 116: [S]tatements expressing [the existentialist understanding of human being] have the meaning of timeless truths and, insofar as they are to the point, can be valid as such. But existentialist analysis points beyond itself, so to speak, in that it shows (and this, too, would be a 'timeless truth') that existential self-understanding takes place only as my own particular self-understanding in existential decision.").

3 February 2002