John Weitzel

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Kierkegaard expressed interest in Augustine’s defense of authority and the use of force by the authorities, even though the Dane was himself declaring that the genuinely Christian policy should be to eschew the use of force against injustice and instead disarm injustice by enduring the suffering that it perpetrates (JP 2, 1195).
Eros and Self-Emptying: The Intersections of Augustine and Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker)
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