When was The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin written?
The Concept of Anxiety
Kierkegaard is not concerned with what Eve's sin was, he says it wasn't sensuousness,[28] but he is concerned with how Eve learned that she was a sinner. He says "consciousness presupposes itself.[29] Eve became conscious of her first sin through her choice and Adam became conscious of his first sin through his choice. God's gift to Adam and Eve was the "knowledge of freedom" and they both decided to use it.[30] In Kierkegaard's Journals he said,  "the one thing needful" for the doctrine of Atonement to make sense was the "anguished conscience." He wrote, "Remove the anguished conscience, and you may as well close the churches and turn them into dance halls."[31]