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Kierkegaard was considered to be a romantic thinker whose only alternative to philosophical systems was his solitary subjectivity: such was the frequent criticism that seemed to reinforce in his works the place accorded to the individual’s relationship with God. However it is precisely by his religious thought that Kierkegaard escapes subjectivism, applying to the field of individual emotion conceptual determinations which the subject is not in a position to govern. The revelation which a contemporary of Kierkegaard, Pastor Adler, claims to have received was the occasion for the Danish thinker to further accentuate the gap between the truth of Christianity and the field of interiority.