Although this book is, as a whole, a new and original work, parts of it have previously been published elsewhere and I am grateful for permission to reproduce those parts here. Chapter 2 is a revised and expanded version of ‘Kierkegaard and Speculative Theology’, first published in J. Garff, E. Rocca, and P. Søltoft, At vaere sig selv naervaerende (Copenhagen: Kristeligt Dagblads Forlag, 2010), pp. 370–88; Chapter 3 is a revised version of ‘D. F. Strauss: Kierkegaard and Radical Demythologization’, in J. Stewart, Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Receptions and Resources, Volume 6, Tome II, Kierkegaard and his German Contemporaries: Theology (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 233–57; Chapter 4 incorporates part of the chapter ‘Dogma and Faith: The Testimony of an Upbuilding Discourse’, in E. Mooney (ed.), Ethics, Love, and Faith in Kierkegaard: Philosophical Engagements (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008); Chapter 8 incorporates a revised version of the article ‘The Art of Upbuilding’, in R. Perkins (ed.), International Kierkegaard Commentary: Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2003), pp. 77–90; Chapter 9 is an expanded version of the article ‘Kirkestormen, Neo-Gnosticism and Secular Christianity’, in Dansk teologisk tidskrift, Vol. 73, Issue 4, 2010, pp. 282–95; and Chapter 10 is a revised version of the chapter ‘Kierkegaard's Hands’, in R. Perkins (ed.), International Kierkegaard Commentary: The Point of View (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2010), pp. 104–16.

Other work presented here has been tried out in a variety of seminars, lectures, and other similar forums, chiefly at the universities of Aarhus, Copenhagen, and Oxford, and I am grateful to all who made it possible for me to develop my reading of Kierkegaard in this way. Perhaps the core of the book developed from work on translating Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks and I am especially grateful for having been included in that exciting and important project. Other thanks – to teachers, colleagues, students, friends, and family – are too innumerable to list, but are none the less heartfelt for being anonymous.