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hn's identification of Jesus with the Platonic and Stoic idea of the pre-existent "Word." 5 A more intentional religious humanism can be found in Augustine's use of the neo-Platonic Plotinus, especially in the philosophical psychology of remembrance developed in his Confessions . 6 But the most dram

6 Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo (Berkeley, CA.: University of California, 1969), p. 178. 'Richard Rubinstein, Aristotle's Children (New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2003) sEdward Scribner Ames, Religion (Chicago: Holt, 1929). 9Anders Nygren, Agape and Eros (Philadelphia, PA.: Westminster Press, 1953)

hilosopher, Walter Kaufman, has noted in his Religion in Four t Dimensions “...compassion for unbelievers is implicitly condemned and proscribed...Augustine argued expressly against compassion for the damned and Luther used invectives against his (religious) enemies...” How can this be God’s 145 HOUSE_

rain fractions. L.L Hus and A.J. Mandell, J. Neurochemistry 24:631-636 The Sacred and Profane, The Nature of Relgion. Mircea Eliade, Harvest Books, Harcourt, San Diego, 1957 Hashish and Mental Iliness. J. J. Moreau, Raven Press, N.Y. 1973 (First published in 1848) The Neurochemistry of Religious Insight

of John’s identification of Jesus with the Platonic and Stoic idea of the pre-existent “Word.” A more intentional religious humanism can be found in Augustine’s use of the neo-Platonic Plotinus, especially in the philosophical psychology of remembrance developed in his Confessions.° But the most dramatic ex

65. ° Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo (Berkeley, CA.: University of California, 1969), p. 178. "Richard Rubinstein, Aristotle’s Children (New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2003) ‘Edward Scribner Ames, Religion (Chicago: Holt, 1929). *Anders Nygren, Agape and Eros (Philadelphia, PA.: Westminster Press, 1953). '