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The demonstration of the anti-Christianity of the Postscript rests upon two arguments: (I) Christianity is made a relative, not an absolute, end. (2) By Climacus’ own dialectic Christianity becomes an objective truth, no longer an affair of the spirit.
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Garelick, H.M. (1965). The Anti-Christianity of the “Postscript”. In: The Anti-Christianity of Kierkegaard. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0903-9_6
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