kierkegaard, faith, & community

I have been reading through Kierkegaard’s book Fear and Trembling recently. I haven’t finished it yet, but it has already brought up some interesting concerns for me.
Basically the book uses the story and Abraham’s sacrificing Isaac as a backdrop for a discussion of faith. Kierkegaard see faith as a paradox, something that cannot be truly explained–any attempt at an explanation really just discounts what it is.
One of the issues that I just finished reading was how the individual of faith relates to the community–or the lack there of. Kierkegaard argues that the knight of faith as he calls him cannot really be understood by the community and really just goes it alone with what he is supposed to do.
The isolation of the man of faith seems very interesting when I think about modern ideas about accountability and mentoring. He raises the issue of how Abraham didn’t consult with anyone else before he started up the mountain; he heard the command of God and followed. Today most people would say that Abraham was acting foolishly if the story was put into a contemporary situation. We are not supposed to act as such, one should pray and ask elders about something, i.e. include the community and spend a lot of time on the subject before acting.
From what little I know of Kierkegaard, he wasn’t liked by much of society even within his family. I’m not sure what kind of influence that would have on his work. He says the man of faith is isolated from society; which seems pretty true of the prophets of the Bible–didn’t even Christ make a comment to the Pharisees about how they never listened to the prophets of old?