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Late Have I Loved Thee: Selected Writings of Saint Augustine on Love

Late Have I Loved Thee: Selected Writings of Saint Augustine on Love

Thornton, John F.
Augustine
Saint Augustine of Hippo

Paperback

Religion General Christian LivingGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0375725695
ISBN13: 9780375725692
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Dec 5 2006
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The first collection of Saint Augustine's varied writings on human and divine love--chosen to reflect his lifelong preoccupation with ordo amoris, the principle of rightly directed love.

My weight is my love, Saint Augustine writes in The Confessions. He sees our ability to love as disordered by sin, so that we often choose badly what and how to love. Only by recognizing that we are commanded to love God first can any other object of our love be properly ordered, Late Have I Loved Thee draws on the riches found in Augustine's sermons, letters, treatises, and Scripture commentaries, as well as passages from The Confessions and City of God.

Augustine (354-430 A.D.) was the most prolific writer of Christian antiquity and the most influential theologian in Church history. In his first encyclical, God Is Love, current Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges his indebtedness to him. When we read Augustine today, we encounter the same direct, eloquent passions his original listeners experienced, infused with his deep sense of human weakness and burning desire for union with God.

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