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 Søren Kierkegaard.
Though these two intellectual giants have been paired by historians of Western culture, the exact nature of their similarities and differences has not been probed in detail. Barrett demonstrates that on many essential theological levels Augustine and Kierkegaard were more convergent than divergent. Most significantly, their parallels point to a distinctive understanding of the Christian life as a passion for self-giving love. In this engaging text, Barrett argues that approaching Kierkegaard through the lens of Augustine enables us to identify the theme of desire for fulfillment in God as much more central to Kierkegaard’s thought than previously imagined.
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