Faith and Philosophy

Volume 4, Issue 1, January 1987

Kierkegaard’s Metatheology

Philosophy and theology have always been, in some measure, a matter of rewriting the past. This can be done with more or less objectivity, more or less insight, however. Of late, the job has not been done at all well with respect to the work of Søren Kierkegaard. His legacy is in danger of being coopted by modem nihilists. I argue in this paper that Kierkegaard’s understanding of truth, subjectivity, and paradox promises, in reality, a middle way between the metaextremes of foundational ism and nihilism. He is, in this sense, anti-modem.