Dostoyevsky’s The Possessed.156 What is missing in Kierkegaard’s intensity is the gift of the undisturbed vision of the established form.157 The idea of a “wholly other God”, who remains hidden from the sinner, betrays Protestant extremism,158 the absence of the Catholic element of analogy,159 and, therefore, the repudiation of any pathway leading from the world to God. Kierkegaard inaugurates dialectical theology, whose positions Guardini always rejected.160 He belongs among those who excoriate