"These old doctrines about God were increasingly condemned as flawed and inadequate. The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) insisted that the old creeds and doctrines had become idols, ends in themselves and substitutes for the ineffable reality of God. True Christian faith was a leap out of the world, away from these fossilized human beliefs and outmoded attitudes, into the unknown."
From chapter 10 "The Death of God?" of Karen Armstrong's A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, (1993), p. 354.
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