Eros and Self-Emptying: The Intersections of Augustine and Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker)

by Lee C. Barrett III

Kierkegaard was siding with the more conservative confessionalist assessments of Augustine in order to maximize guilt, distancing himself from Clausen and Martensen, who were prone to seek out nonculpable mitigating circumstances that motivated sin.