The article examines Kierkegaard’s understanding of immortality within the context of the discussion in the post-Hegelian school. Passages from The Concept of Irony, Concluding Unscientific Postscript and Christian Discourses reveal Kierkegaard’s criticism of any attempt to prove the reality of immortality within the realm of academic discourse. The article suggests that Kierkegaard’s constructive approach to immortality is to be found by following the concepts of certainty and responsibility. It is these existential phenomena that for Kierkegaard are the basic predicates of a notion of personal immortality safeguarding the transcendent status of the individual person within modern society. The truth of the Christian notion of immortality in this reading lies in its power to claim this status for the individual, against all odds. Thus Kierkegaard’s texts on immortality point towards the broader task of applying this notion to a Christian hermeneutics of the self