John Weitzel

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This combination of being propelled by an inchoate need and also being drawn by an object whose attractiveness was unanticipated would have important consequences for Augustine’s vision of the interaction of “nature” and “grace.” As we shall see, a parallel relationship of being intrinsically propelled and being contingently drawn would reappear in the writings of Kierkegaard. This two-dimensional understanding of desire would enable both of them to avoid many of the dichotomies that came to afflict Catholicism and Protestantism.
Eros and Self-Emptying: The Intersections of Augustine and Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker)
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