ABSTRACT
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard is fully dialectical where religious questions are concerned, as is displayed not merely in his long attention to different Stages of life, but in the many particular examples in which the same sentence is imagined to be said by men in different positions and thereby to mean differently. Kierkegaard's claim to religious authorship sounds too much as though the Pseudonymous works were a strategy he employed for the benefit of others. Both political and religious ministers madly try to solve religious problems with political means, the one by "leveling" worldly differences into a horrible parody of what is, Christianly; the other by trying to approach by reason what is always grasped by faith. Magister Adler performed the one saving act, he lost his reason; only he did it the way he does everything else, the way things normally are done in our reflective age: he did it literally, not religiously.
