The paper deals with the New testament character of the woman, who was a sinner (Luke 7), who becomes Kierkegaard's example of effective repentance. The paper aims at sheding light at the role of repentance in the whole of Kierkegaard's dialectical view of the human condition.
The paper also aims at explaining the place of the so-called Anti-Climacean corpus (i.e. The Sickness unto death, Practice in Christianity, Three discourses at the Communion on Fridays and An upbuilding discourse 1850) in the whole of Kierkegaard's authorship.