Kierkegaard's Definition of Truth

Kierkegaard's Definition of Truth

In general, I found the Kierkegaard reading to be intriguing yet difficult to grasp. Just as it was with Hegel, I thought that it might be helpful for us to define some of Kierkegaard's key terms. Initially, I found myself particularly puzzled by his use of the words "truth" and "untruth".

As Kierkegaard says, "The teacher, then, is the god himself, who, acting as the occasion, prompts the learner to be reminded that he is untruth and is that through his own fault. But this state--to be untruth and to be that through one's own fault--what can we call it? Let us call it sin" (15). In light of this statement, does Kierkegaard mean something like "purity" or "divinity" when he uses the term "truth"?

Furthermore, perhaps because of Kierkegaard's frequent references to Socrates, I found myself wondering what the relation might be between this text and something like Plato's Symposium. It seems to me that this text is a more general discussion of the relationship between the divine teacher and the human follower which does not discuss (at least not yet) the precise manner in which the human follower may approach or understand the divine. The Symposium, on the other hand, lays out a more specific progression that the learner must follow in order to arrive at a better understanding of the divine.

In short, I suppose that I am wondering whether anyone can provide us with a more complete, meaningful evaluation of the relationship between Kierkegaard's work and the Symposium.