ABSTRACT
Torsten Bohlin's landmark study Kierkegaards dogmatiska åskådning i dess historiska sammanhang was published in Swedish in 1925 with a German translation appearing shortly thereafter in 1927. As Bohlin notes in the Introduction, although Kierkegaard takes upon himself the practical and ethical task of illuminating the individual's relation to Christianity, he never entirely abandons orthodoxy. On Bohlin's reading, Kierkegaard develops two accounts of sin in his writings that are at deep variance with one another. On the one hand, in his psychological works Kierkegaard writes of sin largely from the position of his own concrete religious experience as a phenomenon that is voluntaristically determined. On the other hand, Kierkegaard describes sin as intellectualistically determined. With respect to Kierkegaard's understanding of faith, Bohlin sees a deeply-rooted duplicity at play. For Bohlin, the dualisms and contradictions at the core of Kierkegaard's dogmatic view can ultimately be traced back to the Danish thinker's ambivalent relation to the Hegelian philosophy of religion.
