ABSTRACT
Giuseppe Modica, Fede libertà peccato. Figure ed esiti della prova in Kierkegaard deals with the complex issue of the relations among faith, freedom, and sin in Kierkegaard's thought. Kierkegaard's reading of Job's trial is fruitfully compared to other interpretations, in particular to that of Kant, with which it seems to have some affinity. According to Modica, Kierkegaard finds in Job the incarnation of freedom; Job defends freedom before God and before the world. According to Modica, Kierkegaard's reading of the trial of Abraham, the father of faith, emphasizes, among other things, that faith is a risk and a wager and therefore, in final analysis, an act of freedom. There is a third element that the trial hints at but cannot treat directly: evil. In Job it hides itself in the vestiges of the unjust and unjustifiable suffering, and in Abraham under the vestiges of the possibility of the unjust and unjustifiable death.
