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Sal Sp Optimism
35 cards·by Sfliszar248
Good is ...
that which pleases the appetite and will
Beauty is ..
that which pleases sense and understanding
A person is beautiful when
will has control and points us toward God
The will has dominion over the appetite by:
dominion by authority like a father over the family, they can choose to not obey but wont
What are the passions Desales lists (11)
Hate, Courage, Sorrow, Anger, Satisfaction, Desire, Joy, Hope, Fear, grief, love
The primary passion
love
What determines whether a passion is good or bad?
the love from which the passion proceeds
Why do we have passions?
To develop and grow spirituality
Affections
are movements of the intellectual or rational appetite
Passions are
the movements of the sensible or sensual appetite
What is the fundamental reason for the primacy of God's love in our heart
we are made in the image and likeness of God
Two writers that preceeded DeSales and were fundamental for Christian Humanism
Rabelais and Erasmus
who introduced Desales to independent thinkers
Camus
irenic
peaceful
DeSales read and responded to
Calvin
Relationship with God is
one of a love story
Unity of God the Creator and God the Redeemer is
basic principle of Salesian Spirituality
Stoicism
no feelings/ passions
Saints should be
admired not immitated
Daily life and spiritual life
need to be one
Neo-stoicism
without religion
Intro to Devout life
stresses combination of spiritual and secular lives
4 sources of Christian Humanism
Personal experience, Fathers of the Church, Sacred Scripture, and Writers of Classical
Antiquity
Desales was formed in
scholasticism
Desales did not follow
scholastic method and terms
Desales wrote to
touch peoples hearts
Desales wrote to
the culture of the time
Canticle of Canticles
importance of women, optimism, irenicism
breath of God to give us life =
his love
the study of human nature
inseperable from the study of God
all made in likeness and image of God therefore
all made in the likeness and image of each other
to be is to
be with
charity is the
perfection of love
Living a devout life without being affected by the worlds evil influences
a pearl fish living in the sea but not taking in a single drop of salt water
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