Abstract
This chapter analyzes significant compatibilities and divergences between Saint Augustine and Soren Kierkegaard on major themes in Christianity, concluding with an extended treatment of each thinker’s view of divine love as kenotic and the human vocation to conform to this divine love. It provides a well-researched and much needed resource for several fields: Augustinian studies, Kierkegaard studies, and historical and constructive theology. Lee C. Barrett suggests a metaphor of a journey of faith to frame his analysis of the convergences and divergences of Augustine and Kierkegaard, and highlights the significant role that desire and passion play for both religious thinkers. Barrett shows that both Augustine and Kierkegaard assert that desire and eros for God are composed of two movements. Loving God is only the first movement of love/faith. The second movement is love of neighbor. When eros is understood and practiced in the life of faith as both desire for God and self-emptying love, then these divisions are overcome.
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