Kierkegaard's Incarnational Mission: A Study of Søren Kierkegaard as a Missionary Applied to the Japanese Context

One lacuna in Søren Kierkegaard scholarship is in analyzing his works with his self-described identity as a “missionary to Christendom” in mind. Challenging the international connotation of the term “missionary,” Dr. Michio Ogino examines Kierkegaard’s works in which he identified himself as a missionary writer, to reveal how he considered being a missionary an integral part of being a Christian.

By chronologically and empirically examining the writings of Søren Kierkegaard, Dr. Ogino argues...