Abstract
This article is a short version of my opposition at Kaj Mogensen’spublic defense of his doctoral dissertation, Life – the most wonderfulstory. The theology of H.C. Andersen. While most scholars haveconcentrated their studies on only one genre, Kaj Mogensen analyzesAndersen’s most important novels The two Baronesses, To be or not to beand Lykke-Peer, the long drama “Ahasverus” and various poems andhymns as well as a few of his fairy tales. Mogensen reads the texts intheir cultural context and argues that Andersen’s theology is a challengeto modern theology. At the public defense, I challenged Mogensen todiscuss his understanding of Andersen’s use of intertexts and Mogensen’sown criteria for including intertexts (often biblical intertexts) in hisinterpretations.
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