Kierkegaard’s notebooks from 1851 contain many more references to Augustine than usual, for he was carefully reading Friedrich Böhringer’s lengthy biography of Augustine in Die Kirche Christi und ihre Zeugen oder die Kirchengeschichte in Biographie.33 More generally, his diffuse reading in Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel, and the German and Danish Hegelians would have exposed him to further discussions of Augustine.
