… it may well seem to them too rigorous to be edifying, and too edifying to be strictly scientific …. From the Christian point of view everything, indeed everything should serve for edification.… This relation of the Christian teaching to life (in contrast with a scientific aloofness from life), or this ethical side of Christianity, is essentially the edifying…. All Christian knowledge, however rigorous its form, ought to be concerned; but this concern is precisely the edifying. Concern constitutes the relationship to life …

– Kierkegaard, Sickness Unto Death