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

by Lee C. Barrett III

Climacus, paralleling de Silentio, elaborates the point that the willingness to subordinate all earthly happiness and aspirations to faithfulness to God inevitably involves suffering as the ordinary joys are surrendered (CUP I, 431-525).