This book is not a criticism; it pretends to be no more than an exposition of Kierkegaard's main message, his revolutionary reconception of Christian truth, to our own age. I have tried therefore, as far as possible, to let him tell his own tale in his own terms and to add only such comments as seemed necessary to relate his word to our conditions or to show what seem to me to be the considerations necessary for a balanced criticism Melville Chaning-Pearce (1886-1969) studied at Oxford University and wrote numerous books on the subject of Kierkegaard and his contemporaries.