Eros and Self-Emptying: The Intersections of Augustine and Kierkegaard

A thought-provoking comparative take on two seminal thinkers in Christian history

In this book — the first volume in the Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker series — Lee Barrett offers a novel comparative interpretation of early church father Augustine and nineteenth-century philosopher-theologian Soren Kierkegaard.

Though these two intellectual giants have been paired by historians of Western culture, the exact nature of their similarities and differences has never before been probed in detai...