A Companion to KierkegaardCompanions to important thinkers help readers focus on the main drift of their texts with the help of a dig into their origin and some account of their reception. This one digs deeper, and over a wider terrain, than most. But it does more. Besides guiding us to the staples of theology and philosophy in Kierkegaards background, it also looks forward to a future, as if Kierkegaard, too, might be taken by the arm and told that here was something that