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

by Lee C. Barrett III

Friedrich Böhringer, whom Kierkegaard read later in life, also emphasizes the daunting view of Christian discipleship that Augustine advocated, pointing out that for Augustine this discipleship necessarily involved suffering (JP 4, 4670).58