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Since you brought it up... I am going to tell my Kierkegaard story.
About 20 years ago I was in the home of a women I knew based on our shared involvement in pro-life & political causes. As I sat in her living room I picked up a book from the coffee table. It was one of several by SK that were all over the room. Hardback, paperback, several editions of the same title, all by Kierkegaard.
I asked "you read Kierkegaard?" "No" she said. "But do you know who he is?" "Of course I do. Doesn't everyone?" I replied (or something like that. I am terrible at dialog...)
Turns out her husband was the grandson of SK. She thought that all the family talk about "grandpa Soren, the great theologan & philosopher" was so much hot air. It was only after several years of being married that she realised that more people then her inlaws knew of "grandpa Soren" & his books.
Since her daughter was my age and we had gone out to lunch a couple of times, I used to say in university that "I dated Soren Kierkegaards grand-daughter."
I do not claim to know his eternal state, I do not claim to understand him, but I still quote him!
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To my knowledge SK never married and never had any children. He died in 1855. So, how old was this women's husband. Think about it...SK's offspring would have been born before 1855 and his child would have most likely had a child (your friends husband) before the turn of the 20th century. I think someone was puling your leg....  unless this womens husband was around 90 something.
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B.J. Edenfield
Member of Independent Presbyterian Church (PCA)
Savannah, Ga.
"Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave"- Stonewall Jackson |