ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the continuities and differences between Soren Kierkegaard and the classical Thomist idea of analogy actually serve to clarify the traditional and radical nature of Kierkegaard's project. Aquinas appeals to analogy as a middle way for religious language between the extremes of equivocation and univocity. Two forms of analogy were distinguished by later scholastics, those of attribution and proportionality: According to the first the predicate actually belongs to one of the objects. According to the second both objects actually possess the predicate. The chapter explores the way in which Kierkegaard's texts can be seen as practising such an analogy, through his reflections on religious language, his treatment of specific practices and doctrines, and his late concern with the nature of witnessing. The analogy of communication sets those categories in motion again, for God can be spoken of and witnessed to in the context of the life of faith, worship and liberating communication.
