The Danish author Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) is one the
best-known theologians in the intellectual history of modernity since
the nineteenth century. His influence is comprehensive: it is to be
detected, amongst others, in theological, philosophical, literary,
psychological and aesthetic discourses across the globe in many
contexts.



As such this publication will provide welcome input in further
reflection on Kierkegaard's role in the interpretation of Scripture in
modernity. Huls's book is a refreshing addition to Kierkegaardian
studies, which will pave the way for further research on one of the
great thinkers of our time. It is also a useful contribution to the
debate in contemporary hermeneutics about the legacy of the
Enlightenment and the nature of biblical interpretation as a
hermeneutical enterprise. (Pieter de Villiers)



Scripture aims to bring us back to our being-seen-in-God. By being alone
with it, we realize that in it we are looking in the mirror of Him who
loves us from our origin. In reading Scripture, we can, consequently,
not be allowed to flee in all sorts of human fabrications about
Scripture, as if only the knowledge of theologians could expose the true
meaning of Scripture. Every person, whether well-schooled or not,
whether he has much or little knowledge, knows Scripture, because before
all else Scripture lives in us. Scripture merely reminds us of the Word
that is spoken in us immediately and that constitutes our subjectivity.




As long as the Word has not truly made us fall silent and we ourselves
still think we have a say, the Word does not yet have us in its grasp.
Only when we truly fall silent, in the realization that our human logic
shrinks into insignificance compared to the wisdom of Him who loves us
from our origin, can this Word become directive in our existence.
Because there is truly only one eternal object of wonder - that is
God - and only one possible hindrance to wonder - and that is a person
when he himself wants to be something.