Love and Do What You Want: Augustine’s Pneumatological Love Ethics
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Love and Do What You Want: Augustine’s Pneumatological Love Ethics
Father Richard Rohr describes the “eagerness to love” that characterized the life and spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi (1182–1226):
If our only goal is to love, there is no such thing as failure. Francis of Assisi succeeded in living in a single-hearted way, in which his only goal was to love. This intense eagerness to love made his whole
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