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Article: The Unity of Love for God and Neighbor in St. Augustine.
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- Theological Studies
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- September 1, 1994
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By Raymond Canning. Louvain: Augustinian Historical Institute, 1993. Pp. xi + 446. Fr.b. 1,800.
This study focuses on the modern disputes over the relation of the parts of the great commandment of love of God, self, and neighbor, particularly the assertions that Augustine subordinated the love of neighbor to the beatifying and perfecting love of God. Canning engages Nygren, Brechtken, and Hultgren with the general assistance of Burnaby, Holte, and O'Donovan. C. ranges over the Augustinian corpus, considering first the texts which seem to separate the two loves and then those which treat love of neighbor as a ladder for climbing to love of God, which can then be ...