When Jonathan Wiley writes:

> I have to decide in what sense it is right
> to consider myself an individual
> and in what sense it is right
> to consider myself a member.

I infer him to be more of an individualist than he asserts.

The deliberate choice even of a communal
as opposed to a particular religiosity seems
to me an ineluctably individual act.

I think we both recognize the pervasive dialectic between
individual and community, and within this dialectic,
each of us finds a position that corresponds to his/her
needs. Historically the contradiction is dramatized
in the contrast between the hermit and the monk. 

The corresponding dialectic in Kierkegaard's experience
seems to me to be reflected in his conflict with Martensen
and his attack on the Danish state church in the last
year of his life. The institution which Kierkegaard
attacked so vehemently from a highly individualistic perspective,
obviously had deep meaning for him.