Faith Related to Infinite Resignation

What is Faith and how does it Relate to Infinite Resignation? In Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard, under the pseudonym of Johannes de Silentio, provides a perplexing description of faith. Essentially, Kierkegaard proposes that individuals make a "leap of faith" into a religious life, which is inherently paradoxical because it rests solely on the strength of the absurd. But we cannot achieve this state of absolute faith without going through various prerequisite movements, and it …

…the universal context, not the spiritual. Kierkegaard's arguments would have been more easily accepted had he argued instead that, "faith relies on the inner-strength of the individual, against the absurdities of the universal." Having faith, establishes the link between that which can be explained to that which cannot. In other words, faith provides the individual with a peace of mind that there is order in the chaos of our existence. There is meaning to faith.