ABSTRACT
In 1953 Paul Minear and Paul Morimoto proposed that Soren Kierkegaard would be remembered as a profound expositor of the Bible, and in 1994 L. Joseph Rosas categorized some of different ways in which Kierkegaard used biblical passages in his authorship. But no one had devoted sustained attention to the exact nature and significance of Kierkegaard's implicit hermeneutic practice until Timothy Houston Polk published The Biblical Kierkegaard in 1994. According to Polk, Kierkegaard was unhappy with the tendency of the higher critics to locate the Bible's significance in a scholarly reconstruction of the historical events behind the text, or in the sources that predated the final, received form of the text. Polk concluded that Kierkegaard's interpretive practice was governed by a dialectic of the objective shape of the text and reader's faithful imagination. A biblical text does impose certain constraints on legitimate interpretation.
