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

by Lee C. Barrett III

Far from being an imperfection, the need for God is the source of human fulfillment and joy. (This theme would recur in such discourses by Kierkegaard as “To Need God Is a Human Being’s Highest Perfection” [EUD, 297-326].)