This book offers a novel interpretation of the relationship between religious concern and artistic creativity in the works of the self-styled Christian poet and thinker Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855). Although Kierkegaard articulated neither a Christology in the sense that the term has for systematic theology, nor a generic theory of poetry in the sense that phrase has for literary criticism, this study makes the case that Kierkegaard s writings nevertheless do advance a Christomorphic poetics, a tertium quid that resists conventional distinctions between theology and literature. Arguing that Kierkegaard s poetics takes shape in conversation with many of the major themes of early German Romanticism (irony, imaginative creativity, paradox, the relativization of imitation  mimesis], and erotic love), this book offers a fresh appreciation of the depth of Kierkegaard s engagement with Romanticism, and of the contours of his alternative to that literary movement.>