Love, therefore, is the beginning and end of the process of the total growth of the human person in his or her spiritual itinerary to God. In scope and theme, Francis's concept of love portraying an outpouring and progress of the heart towards the good, aims at the possession and union with God. By love, de Sales means a movement of the heart towards what seems good. In order to understand the meaning, scope and importance of disinterested love, it is necessary to understand the nature of love in the Salesian thought. For Saint Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Doctor of the church, disinterested love means a loving attraction to a person or thing only because of the love of God. The dissertation examines Saint Francis de Sales' doctrine of disinterested love within the general theory of love with focus on the central components of devotion and anthropology in his spirituality.
Disinterested love: The theory of love in the thought of Saint Francis de Sales
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