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

by Lee C. Barrett III

Marheineke endorses Kant’s more symbolic view that the story of Adam should be read as the paradigmatic story of all human beings. Significantly, Marheineke associates Augustine with Kant on this issue, quoting Augustine’s statement that “we have all been, we are, that one” (KJN 3, pp. 255-56).54