Kierkegaard would have more in common with the “dialectical theology” of the early Barth, insisting on God’s absolute otherness, than with Augustine. The qualitatively different God could be worshiped and obeyed, perhaps even trusted, but not really desired. Kierkegaard’s words often do seem to encourage this interpretation, as when he remarks, “God and the human being resemble each other only inversely” (CD, 292).
