In this article, the notion of repetition is taken from its literary hiding place in Kierkegaard's book of the same name and is shown to be a central philosophical and theological concept. It is to be understood as a metaphysical border concept which occupies a place between the Greek and the Christian thought of recollection. From the problem of movement a subtext becomes apparent (both here and in The Concept of Anxiety) with the observation concerning the theme of time, a subtext which refers to eschatology.