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

by Lee C. Barrett III

Kierkegaard sometimes criticizes Augustine for attempting to produce objective arguments to support the probable truth of Christianity. According to one of Kierkegaard’s journal entries (1851), Augustine’s argument that the truth of Christianity is validated by the unity of Christians in contrast to the disunity found among philosophers is fallacious and misleading (JP 3, 3614;