God Alone Deserves To Be Loved For His Own Sake and As An Ultimate End (Free Reformation Resources)

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God Alone Deserves To Be Loved For His Own Sake and As An Ultimate End (Free Reformation Resources)

God Alone Deserves To Be Loved For His Own Sake and As An Ultimate End (Free Reformation Resources)

frui: to enjoy; in the Augustinian vocabulary, frui means specifically to love something for its own sake or as an end in itself, as contrasted to uti (q.v.), to love something for the sake of another or as a means to a higher end. In the Augustinian perspective adopted by medieval and Protestant scholastics, frui applies only to the love of creatures for God (see amor Dei), since God alone deserves to be loved for his own sake and as an ultimate end. The created order is not to be despised but rather to be loved (uti) as a means to the higher end of love for God. Thus God is loved for his sake alone, whereas self and neighbor are loved for God’s sake because they are God’s creatures and reflect the divine love. In this view, sin is easily characterized as an idolatry that loves the finite as an ultimate end in and for itself. - Richard A. Muller, Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms: Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology (Baker Academic, 2nd edition, Ebook edition created 2017), p. 258 (emphases added)

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Teaching Children to Know and Love God By Knowing and Loving Theology, By Dr. Bruce Ware (Free MP3)

Thomas Watson's A Divine Cordial (All Things For God), or, The Transcendent Privilege of Those That Love God and are Savingly Called (Free MP3s, Books, etc.)

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God Alone Deserves To Be Loved For His Own Sake and As An Ultimate End (Free Reformation Resources)

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