ABSTRACT
Grigore Popa was first and foremost a historian of philosophy. In addition to being a scholar of philosophy, he was a poet and an open advocate of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Popa claims that humans generally feel an irrepressible need to surmount the multiple limitations and insufficiencies of their worldly existence. He characterizes Soren Kierkegaard as "the poet of the aesthetic stage, the moralist of the ethical stage, and the lyrical dialectician of the religious stage". Popa observes that in Kierkegaard's fideism history appears transfigured by fideistic engagements. He excessively focuses on the isolation, solitude, individualism, and unworldliness inherent in the human pursuit of God and salvation. Existence and Truth is marked by a few striking points of lack of clarity or unresolved tensions. One of them concerns the acosmic undertones of Kierkegaard's soteriology.
