Da humildade à caridade: o “coração” em Santo Agostinho

• Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Isabel Maria Alçada
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/didaskalia.2017.3255

The present article, after a short introduction to the course and context of St. Augustine’s life, aims to set out a succinct note on the meaning of ‘heart’ for this author. After referring to the biblical and Christian sources that preceded St. Augustine, it goes on to consider how he sees the heart as the place of passage from the inner man (homo interior) to the spiritual man (homo spiritalis). Finally, after brief remarks on the Augustinian semantics of the word ‘heart’, the article concludes with the illustration of two biblical passages from the Gospel of St. Matthew, namely: “Blessed are the pure in heart” (5, 8) and “Learn from me, for I am meek and lowly in heart” (11, 29), in the light of texts resulting from the pastoral activity of St. Augustine’s preaching.