cahtolic theology of love

8/14/2019 Cahtolic Theology of Love

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ChristianityChristianityThe Way of the Cross

The Body of Christ


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Theology of LoveTheology of Love


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Christian spirituality is centered on LoveChristian spirituality is centered on Love

Gods love.Gods love.

Those who do not love do not know God.

Beloved, let us love one another; for love isof God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not

know God; for God is love. (1 Jn 4: 7-8).


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Love is a relational term.Love is a relational term.

As describing Gods very being, it is the COMMUNION of

THE FATHER(Lover)

THE SON(Beloved)

HOLY SPIRIT

(Love)


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Gods love is made manifest to us through His Son,Gods love is made manifest to us through His Son,Jesus Christ.Jesus Christ.

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son intothe world, so that we might live through him.

(1 Jn 4:9)


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We are called to love.We are called to love. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your

soul, and with all your mind. This isthe great and first commandment. And the second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself

(Mt 22:37-39; Mk 12:29-31).


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This love is perfected in us.This love is perfected in us.

Beloved, if God so loved us,we also ought to love one another.

No man has ever seen God; if welove one another God abides in usand his love is perfected in us

(1 Jn 11-12).


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In love, fear has no place.In love, fear has no place.

There is no fear in love,

but perfect love casts out fear

(1 Jn 4:18).


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Christian love is made manifest throughChristian love is made manifest through

relationships with peoplerelationships with people ..

If anyone says, I love God, and hateshis brother, he is a liar; for he who doesnot love his brother whom he has seen,cannot love God whom he has not seen.

And this commandment we have fromhim, that he who loves God should lovehis brother also.

(1 Jn 4:20-12).


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Dialogue is a way of being in relationship withones self, with God, with others, and with all of

Gods creation.


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Dialogue comes from the Greek word

dia--through, and logos--word.


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In the Christian faith, JesusIn the Christian faith, Jesus Christ is the Wordis the Word

became flesh and dwelt among us (Jn 1:14).became flesh and dwelt among us (Jn 1:14).It is through him that dialogue betweenIt is through him that dialogue betweenGod and humankind is made possible.God and humankind is made possible.


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For Christians, to engage in Interfaith Dialogueis to EMBODY the love of Christ in our relationships

with fellow human beings, just as Christ JesusThe Word of Godembodied Gods

message of love for humankind.


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Interfaith Dialogue is love in action. Love is patient and kind; love is not jealousor boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love

does not insist on its own way; it is not irritableor resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things,believes all things, hopes all things, enduresall things.

(1 Cor 13:4-7).


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People from

differentreligions,

spiritual

expressions,andindigenoustraditions


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In FriendshipIn Friendshipand Dialogueand Dialogue


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I hope someday youll join us I hope someday youll join us

And the world will be as one. And the world will be as one.


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And he made from one every nation

of men to live on all the face of the earth,having determined allotted periods and theboundaries of their habitation, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after him and find him. Yet heis not far from each one of us, for In himwe live and move and have our being; aseven some of your poets have said, For

we are indeed his offspring. (Acts 17:26-28)

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