Plenty of young people may find Søren Kierkegaard relatable on the basis of his biography alone. He once dug himself into debt during a personal crisis by spending too much money on books and coffee.

In his introduction to Kierkegaard’s Kierkegaard’s Attack Upon “Christendom” 1854-1855, Walter Lowrie suggests that Kierkegaard was “moreevidently andmore fundamentally a Catholicor perhaps it would ...