Love and Do What You Want: Augustine’s Pneumatological Love Ethics
Augustine famously summarizes all of ethics in the maxim, “Love and do what you want” in his <i>Homilies on the First Epistle of John</i>, 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...
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MDPI AG
2021-07-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/8/585 |