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- Augustine
on Love
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St. Augustine was one of the foremost leaders in the Western
Christian tradition. Trained as a teacher of rhetoric, he
dabbled in various philosophical systems such as Manicheism
and Platonism before his famous conversion scene narrated
in Book 8 of the Confessions.
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- As you read today's selections from the Confessions,
try to pick out the different types of love that Augustine
describes and the role particularly of divine love. For
Augustine, what is the end-goal of the human person?
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- The second selection for today's class is an encyclopedia
article about Augustine's views of love across all his many
works. This article will help you to identify the different
types of love that Augustine talks about. In
addition, be able to describe Augustine's view of the love
command in the gospels (love of God and love of neighbor),
and how he relates these to love of self.
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- Assigned Readings
- Primary: Selections from Augustine's Confessions
(I i, IV iv-vii, and XIII viii-xi)
- Secondary: van Bavel, "Love" (distributed
in class); online class prep
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- Further Reading
- Augustine. Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick, Oxford World's Classics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
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Brown, Peter R. L. The Body and Society: Men,
Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
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Fitzgerald, Allan D., ed. Augustine through the Ages: An Encyclopedia. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1999.
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- Links
- Augustine
of Hippo - maintained by J. J. O'Donnell; contains
a great collection of texts and commentary.
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- Sources
- Photograph: Scala/Art Resource, New York; reproduced in
Jaroslav Pelikan, The Excellent Empire: The Fall of Rome
and the Triumph of the Church (Rauschenbusch Lectures,
New Series, 1; San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987) fourth
plate, between pp. 80-81.
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