ABSTRACT
Existentialist philosophy is dramatic in structure. It too brings about a reversal of situation. It begins with destructive criticism that prepares the crisis, and the crisis, in turn, preludes a movement towards reconstruction. The theoretical position attained through crisis will either be able to integrate, that is, explain, the crisis or it will not be able to do so. The crisis as explained would cease to be a crisis in the existentialist sense of the word. For the Christian the dilemma which forces the other existentialists out of existentialism is resolved in the idea of faith. Crisis, no longer counterpoised by ascent, reigns supreme, and mediation through a hierarchically ordered world is discarded. Existentialism is a philosophy of crisis and yet annuls crisis. It testifies to a great truth but only in the way in which Jonah testified to God as he fled from him across the sea towards Tarshish.
