THEOLOGY
 We are transformed by what we love
AUGUSTINIAN SPIRITUALITY (LIFE OF ST. AUGUSTINE)
Personal Information of St. Augustine
Real Name: Aurelius Augustinus
Mother: Monica
Father: Patricius
Brother: Navigius
Sister: Perpetua
Son: Adeodatus
AUGUSTINIAN SPIRITUALITY (ST. AUGUSTINE ON
LOVE)
I. Love as Eros in Classical Mythology
a. HOMER - eros means love or desire
b. HESIOD – along with Chaos and Gaia, Eros is
a primordial element.
II. Love according to Ancient Philosophers
a. EMPEDOCLES - Love is a universal force that
binds together the primordial elements.
b. PLATO – The soul’s longing for the eternal,
the human aspiration to immortality and
the likeness of the Divine.
c. ARISTOTLE - Love as philia, “good”, closely
connected to virtue, necessary for life and
for the attainment of happiness.
III. AUGUSTINE’S Teachings about Love
 Love is a craving (appetitus) – a motion
towards something.
 The object that we love could either lead
towards Good or Evil
 Two types of Love; CUPIDITAS – worldly
love; CARITAS – right love that seeks for
eternity.
 Right love consists of right object
AUGUSTINIAN SPIRITUALITY (ON FRIENDSHIP)
ARISTOTLE – Friendship (Philia) is a virtue or it
involves virtue.
CICERO – Friendship (Amiticia) is agreement on
the divine and human affairs accompanied by
benevolence and charity.
AUGUSTINE ON FRIENDSHIP
At first. He followed Cicero’s thoughts on the
positive contribution of friendship to a virtuous life, but
later, found it to be incomplete.
Christian Authors
a. AMBROSE - Friendship is a virtue
b. PAULINUS OF NOLA – Spiritual Friendship
AUGUSTINIAN OF FRATERNAL CORRECTION
Four Great Rules of Church
a. Rule of ST. FRANCIS - Being always subject and
submissive at the feet of the same holy Church,
grounded in the Catholic faith, we may observe
poverty and humility and the holy Gospel of our
Lord Jesus Christ, which we have firmly
promised.
b. Rule of ST. BASIL - Love was the guiding rule for
all the Christian life.
c. Rule of ST. BENEDICT – Organizes the monastic
day into regular periods of communal and
private prayer, sleep, spiritual reading, and
manual labor.
d. Rule of ST. AUGUSTINE - All members are to
share what they have, and are to receive only
according to their need. All works is to be
accomplished for the common good for all. All
members are to exercise mutual care and
vigilance over one another.
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1. ST. ALYPIUS - St. Augustine called him "the  Love of God

brother of my heart"  Love for Neighbor
2. THAGASTE - Birthplace of St. Augustine.
3. 354-430 - St. Augustine lived in these years. CHRISTIAN CONCEPTS OF LOVE
4. RHETORIC - A subject or discipline fundamental  Filial Love for God
to any professional career, such as law and  Brotherly Love
public life.  Love of Ourselves
5. CARTHAGE - The place considered as a
“seething cauldron of shameful sex".
LEVELS OF LOVING ACCORDING TO ST. AUGUSTINE
6. MANI - Founder of Manichaeism who believed
that knowledge is the salvation of the soul.  Love that which is above us
 Love that which is beneath us
7. DUALISM - It is a belief in two supreme  Love ourselves
opposing gods, that caused the world to exist.  Love that which is on a level with us
8. ROMANS 13: 13-14 - Bible text was read by St.
Augustine that says, " put on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to BOOKS WRITTEN BY ST. AUGUSTINE
gratify its desires".  Tractatus
9. THE CONFESSIONS - book written by St.  The Enchiridion
Augustine that details his spiritual conversion  Soliloquia
 City of God
10. FRIENDSHIP - best way to express the love for  The Confessions
neighbor
11. EMPEDOCLES - He says that love is a universal
force that binds together all the primordial
elements.
12. CARITAS - A right love which seeks for eternity.
13. DISINTERESTEDLY - a love without expecting
praises or material gifts in return
14. LOVE - is the most defining aspect in our
humanity.
15. CICERO - says that friendship is an agreement
on the divine and human affairs accompanied
by benevolence and charity.
16. CHURCH - A communion of souls, a theological
and sacramental family, where deeper
relationships take root and flower.
17. PURE FRIENDSHIP - It occurs between humans
when we love the other because of the good we
see in them.
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