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

by Lee C. Barrett III

Augustine admits: “I did not know then and I still do not know.”6 The influential Augustine scholar J. J. O’Meara has concluded: “In spite of the picture of him [Augustine] as the great definer of doctrines in the West, he was also profoundly questioning, profoundly aporetic.”7 Augustine