”My intention now is to collect some written assurances concerning the way people understand the pastor’s Sunday sermon on Mondays and the other week days, so that, if possible, I might contribute to answering the question: what is it that the times demand? Or as I would prefer to express myself: what do the times need? Then the question would not read: what does the religiousness of our times lack? – because it is always misleading to include the answer in the question – but this way: what do our times lack? Religiousness.

Kierkegaard, Sóren, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, edt&tr. Hong, Howard V. and Hong, Edna H., Princeton:Princeton University Press, 1992.