Kierkegaard as Humanist is an extensive analysis of Kierkegaard's concepts of self, freedom, possibility, and necessity. Topics examined include the essential and continuing duality of the self, the process by which the self becomes self-consciousness, freedom as the dialectical tension between necessity and possibility and between temporality and eternity, the indeterminate/determinate leap as freedom's form, and love as freedom's content. Come finds in Kierkegaard's writings an anthropological ontology that is derived by a phenomenological method and distinct from those Kierkegaardian materials that are clearly theological in a Christian sense; he concludes that Kierkegaard's anthropological ontology is independent of his Christian theology.

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"Come has written a definitive study of Kierkegaard as a humanist. The clarity of his exposition, the coherence of the overall argument, and the careful unravelling of dialectical knots in Kierkegaard's writings make this a delightful and highly readable work." James E. Loder, Princeton Theological Seminary.