Another great resource is an Moore, “Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard” (Plough Publishing, 1999).

Cheers.

Can anyone give me another link about Kierkegaard?

Had such a good time linking great posts, thought I’d do it again!
theologyforum and Kierkegaard:
Woe to him therefore, who preaches Christianity without the possibility of offense. Woe to the person who smoothly, flirtatiously, commendingly, co…

It seems “making the gospel more tangible”, as you said, would fall into the former category and fulfill our responsibility to witness to the Gospel in changing cultures.

Keeping the two straight would seem to be the trick.

There should be a place for making the gospel more tangible but at the same time staying true to the dictates and demands of the Spirit in making us a Holy nation.

On the relationship between Barth and Kierkegaard, see Phil Ziegler, “Barth’s Criticisms of Kierkegaard – A Striking out at Phantoms?” in the International Journal of Systematic Theology, Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp. 434-451.

Ziegler concludes, “[I]f we could espy the two theologians together at rest in that eschatological congregation Kierkegaard himself imagined, we might see on Barth’s visage that same ‘painful grin’ that crossed his face when he discovered in 1925 that someone had written a book length study of himself and Kierkegaard. In that pained grin, I think we might still recognize Barth’s grateful ambivalence towards his Danish tutor, perhaps made slightly less painful by the kinds of considerations reviewed in this article. Do we have any reason to doubt that the Dane might be sporting the same mixed expression ready with questions and criticisms of his own for his Swiss student?” (451)