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Love and Do What You Want: Augustine’s Pneumatological Love Ethics
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Augustine famously summarizes all of ethics in the maxim, “Love and do what you want” in his Homilies on the First Epistle of John, but also describes sin as misdirected love and humanity as characterized by sin. This raises the question as to how Augustine can offer such a maxim given humanity’s tendency to love so poorly. Aimed at ethicists and theologians with only a general knowledge of Augustine, this paper examines Augustine’s approach to ethics and its relationship to his theology of the Holy Spirit. By exploring the ordo amoris, the uti/frui distinction, and the doctrine of the Spirit as the inner-Trinitarian Love of the Father and the Son, I attempt to show how Augustine’s maxim can fit with his hamartiology.
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- Authors
- Sandlin, M. S.
- Affiliations
- Harding University Main Campus (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sandlin, Mac S.
- Venue
- Religions
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2021-07-29
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 585
- ISSN
- 2077-1444 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3185534377
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 13
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2
- FWCI
- 5.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Religions (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Augustinian Studies and Theology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Medieval Philosophy and Theology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Classical Philosophy and Thought
- Keywords
- Augustine of Hippo, ethics of love, pneumatology, Holy Spirit, ordo amoris, sin, hamartiology, First Epistle of John, Trinitarian love, Christian ethics
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