… qua and fides quae that traces back to Augustine. Paraphrasing a well-known Aristotelian
… Such a duty arises from Aquinas’s desire to completely devote himself to reflect on God and …

… He also notes the close connection of faith, hope, and love, with love as the greatest,
because when its desire is fulfilled in our ultimate telos, it will increase while the other two fade …

… I will first sketch Thomas’s mature understanding of love and its relation to desire and delight…
If anything, this citation only contradicts what Aquinas attributes to Augustine, were we to …

… Augustine guides the reader through the city of love as a connoisseur of its joys. With Augustine
… friendship, they instilled in me the desire to study Aquinas’ moral theology more deeply. …

… contradict Aquinas’s view of faith as working through charity. … quoted from Augustine does
not appear to support Aquinas’s … the perfect who ‘desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ.…

… Not many who desire greater familiarity with Thomas’s thinking about moral topics are in a
… arrives at God, since it joins us to God, as is clear from the authority of Augustine that was …

… be correctly ordered to God through charity. Similarly, Brian … Consequently, it seems
plausible that Augustine would … Although some Romans, such as Nero, acted out of a desire …

… Thomas Aquinas, the greatest mind in the history of Christian thought since Augustine … or
total, of certain ideas which today we should desire to find even in a sumof Christian doctrine? …

… Augustine readily come to mind as proponents of this same … for our desire; to desire it is
to desire simultaneously the … the teaching of Aquinas on charity tends to overemphasize …

… We can further discern an overarching purpose in these letters: Augustine is a pastor of
souls, and, in charity he desires that they attain their final end through repentance (Letter 100). …