
Ep. 19 - Augustine and Aquinas
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
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The Power of Love
Augustine says that at the heart of reason is love. And what's damaged in me is my capacity to love, not my capacity to reason. That's why I have this sexual addiction. My capacity for love has been thwarted and twisted by my sexuality. So I need something that can heal. Remember the gnosis, the healing. I need to be healed. How do we grow in love? Well agape. Agape, by participating in agape, wegrow in love. We grow in the love that is driving us to becoming persons,. fully realized persons. Neil Platonism needs Christianity; Gnosticism was looking for a response to evil from Christianity.
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