"I want to have the mitigation that is current Christianity here in this country set alongside the New Testament in order to see how these two relate to each other. If I...or anyone else can show it can be maintained face to face with the Christianity of the New Testament, then I will accept it with the greatest joy. But one thing I do not want at any price: I do not want to create, by suppression or artifice, the appearance that the current Christianity in this country and the Christianity of the New Testament resemble each other...[T]he extreme mitigation of Christianity of the New Testament...cannot possibly hold good when every artifice has been used to cover up the difference between the Christianity of the New Testament and this mitigation." (Kierkegaard, "What Do I Want?" (1855)," in The Essential Kierkegaard (ed. Edward H. & Edna Hong)(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000) at 429.)