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Amor Dei in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
Amor Dei, ""love of God"" raises three questions: How do we know God is love? How do we experience love of God? How free are we to love God? This book presents three kinds of love, worldly, spiritual, and divine to understand God's love. The work begins with Augustine's...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | Value inquiry book series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Amor Dei, ""love of God"" raises three questions: How do we know God is love? How do we experience love of God? How free are we to love God? This book presents three kinds of love, worldly, spiritual, and divine to understand God's love. The work begins with Augustine's Confessions highlighting his Manichean and Neoplatonic periods before his conversion to Christianity. Augustine's confrontation with Pelagius anticipates the unresolved disputes concerning God's love and free will. In the sixteenth-century the Italian humanist, Gasparo Contarini introduces the notion of ""divine amplitude"" to. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (175 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789401209458 9401209456 1299879330 9781299879331 |