The paper analyzes the concept of love in St. Augustine’s De Confessione, in which Augustine makes use of an analogy of human love in to describe the ineffable nature of the divine love. Augustine presents a theological reflection on the phenomena of human love: sin and concupiscence. Augustine demonstrates how he could overcome such spiritual desperation and sinful desire. Augustine could not solve the problem of sexual passion by way of Ciceronian philosophy, Manichaean dualism or Platonic philosophy until his heart surrendered to a full determination (at the garden of Milan). Although Augustine expresses remorse about the depravity of his erotic love, he utilizes the language of sexual love to express the divine love.
Augustine confesses that concupiscence is the prevailing aspect of the misdirected love. Augustine could not escape from the tyranny of concupis-cence. and experienced a self-disintegration because of addiction and despair. Augustine reached the true face of evil. Augustine claims that evil is not merely evil acts but the very will to violate God’s goodness. Evil begot habit; habit produced necessity. Augustine could not free himself from the necessity: the compulsion of two opposing wills. The sick heart must be healed before enjoying the divine love. All modes of love should surrender before the divine love, because the latter is the creator of the former.
The divine love is beautiful. It is the source of satisfaction. Augustine’s rhetoric depicts the beauty of the divine love with the images of fire, flower, and other created things. The divine love is the healer of a human soul which is sickened by desiring the created things such as money, sex, and power. Augustine’s soul found rest in the bosom of the divine love.

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