In general, Kierkegaard’s Augustine was a systematic theologian who was saturated with Platonic notions of rationality, who reconceived the Christian faith in such a way that it made sense of his personal struggle to overcome sin and expressed his relief in the help provided by God’s grace. On the one hand, this Augustine patterned his theology on the principles of deductive logic; on the other hand, he used that system to express his powerful religious passions. It may be unfortunate that the more dialectical, asystematic, and rhetorical Augustine was not known to Kierkegaard, for he might
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