 In a book that Kierkegaard didn’t publish but rewrote many times (On Authority and Revelation), he reflected about the case of a Hegelian pastor, a certain Adolph Peter Adler, who claimed to have had a revelation from Jesus Christ. By comparison with most of his contemporaries in the Danish Lutheran Church, Adler was a man of strong religious passion / feeling, and Kierkegaard respected him for that. But he also noted that Adler’s religious emotion was entirely generic, having no just claim to be especially Christian. Adler’s emotion was not Christian emotion because it did not show the distinctive conceptual marks.