David Dunlap

“The neighbor...has never been presented as an object of admiration; Christianity has never taught that one shall admire the neighbor--one shall love him.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Works of Love

“Contemporaneous faith invokes a stance that is opposite to triumphalism, fact-gathering or apologetics.”
― Stephen Backhouse, Kierkegaard's Critique of Christian Nationalism

“Preferential love seeks only those who share one's passions--the more similar the lovers the more fervent the love. By contrast, neighbour love is not preferential and there is no question of loving for sameness' sake. It thrives in a situation of difference, able to include many people under its aegis. The drift of love based on passionate preference is always towards 'the one.' The drift of neighbour love is always towards 'the many.”
― Stephen Backhouse, Kierkegaard's Critique of Christian Nationalism

“When considering -the- event of history, namely the incarnation, Kierkegaard does not de-historicize this event to make faith more palatable to a sophisticated modern audience. Instead, employing contemporaneity he accentuates the historicity of the event, and then identifies our response to it as -either- faith -or- offence. In this way coming to have faith, and thus becoming a whole, authentic person, is essentially and inextricably tied up with the attitude towards an historical event.”
― Stephen Backhouse, Kierkegaard's Critique of Christian Nationalism