Kierkegaard and the Staging of DesireTheology in the modern era often assumes that the consummate form of theological discourse is objective proseignoring or condemning apophatic traditions and the spiritual eros that drives them. For too long, Kierkegaard has been read along these lines as a progenitor of twentieth century neo orthodoxy and a stern critic of the erotic in all its forms. In contrast, Hughes argues that Kierkegaard envisions faith fundamentally as a form of infinite,