TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellusci,David C.
AU  - Ehland,Christoph
TI  - Amor Dei in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
T2  - Value Inquiry Book Series
SN  - 9789401209458 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BT140 .B45 2013
U1  - 210 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Editions Rodopi
KW  - God
KW  - Love
KW  - Worship and love
KW  - History
KW  - RELIGION / Philosophy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Editorial Foreword; Preface; Introduction; ONE Augustine: The Experience of Love; 1. Interpreting Love in Augustine; 2. Nature and Knowledge; 3. Problems with Love in Augustine; TWO Truth, Conversion, and Conflict; 1. Augustine's Intellectual Journey; 2. Manichean Conversion; 3. Plotinian Influences; 4. From ""Darkness"" to the Free Will; 5. Augustine and Pelagianism; 6. Augustine on Grace; THREE Augustinianism: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; 1. Early Modern Philosophy; 2. Gasparo Contarini; 3. L'École Française and Pierre de Bérulle; 4. Guillaume Gibieuf5. William Chalmers; 6. Jansen of Ypres; 7. Scotus Eriugena and Dionysius the Areopagite; 8. Divine Amplitude: The Agency of Love; FOUR Malebranche and the Love of God; 1. Malebranche, Lamy, and Norris; 2. ""Vision in God""; 3. John Norris: Malebranche's Disciple; 4. God's Knowledge; 5. Three Letters to Bernard Lamy; 6. Vision in God and Divine Love; FIVE Sweetness of God; 1. Ralph Cudworth and the Divine; 2. Free Will; 3. Cudworth's God of Love; 4. Human Response to Divine Love; 5. Cudworth and Augustine; Conclusion; Works Cited; About the Author; Index
N2  - 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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