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Body and Soul: Springboards for Love
Title: Body and Soul: Springboards for Love
Category: History
Details: Words: 1954 | Pages: 8.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Body and Soul: Springboards for Love
Body and Soul:
Springboards for Love
Saint Augustine and Catherine of Siena went through distinctive spiritual journeys in order to reach and experience true love. Confessions, by Saint Augustine, and The Dialogue, by Catherine of Siena, reveal these journeys faced by both authors. To begin with, each author discusses that people must love their neighbors before true love for God can exist. But Augustine emphasizes that the individual pleasures of the body and the soul …showed first 75 words of 1954 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1954 total…terms of rules that should be followed, while Catherine shows the positive stages that people must go through in order to reach love. Through the pleasures of the body and the mind it is simpler to understand that the senses and emotions must be used for the sole intent of praising and glorifying God. Likewise, divine love is only attained by way of love for one’s neighbors, and then, virtuous love for God.
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