Love in the vision of Blessed Augustine (prolegomena)
The following study: Love in the vision of Blessed Augustine (prolegomena) presents a few lines of force of thought on love in the thinking of Bishop of Hippo. Surnamed „Docteur of charity” [Doctor Caritatis], author of a treatise whose title refers to love, Augustine (354-430), one of the four great Fathers and Doctors of the Western Church (along with Ambrose, Jerome and Gregory the Great), is the author of a work in which love has a central place. The most notable teaching is his vision in preparing Christian concept of love [caritas] that tried to fit the whole Christianity under the auspices of love, from the doctrine of the Trinity (in the De Trinitate) to the ministry neighbor (in the In Iohannis epistulam ad Parthos tractatus decem).
Keywords: love, God, caritas, ordinata dilectio, amor sui, cupiditas, frui, uti etc.
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