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

by Lee C. Barrett III

“Christ has given Christians the prototype not of killing but of dying,” Kierkegaard was intrigued by Augustine’s argument that “not to use force to compel one to the truth is a ‘false and cruel tolerance’ ” (JP 2, 1195-98).