Charity As Practice The practice of charity means the voluntary giving of help to those in need, as a humanitarian act. There are a number of philosophies about charity, often associated with religion. Effective altruism is the use of evidence and reasoning to determine the most effective ways to help others. Etymology The word charity originated in late Old English to mean a...
What Is Perennial Philosophy? The Perennial philosophy, also referred to as perennialism and perennial wisdom, is a perspective in spirituality that views all of the world’s religious traditions as sharing a single, metaphysical truth or origin from which all esoteric and exoteric knowledge and doctrine has grown. Perennialism has its roots in the...
Agape Is Divine Love Agape (agapē) is a Greco-Christian term referring to love, “the highest form of love, charity” and “the love of God for man and of man for God“. The word is not to be confused with philia, brotherly love, as it embraces a universal, unconditional love that transcends and...
What Is Love Of God? Love of God can mean either love for God or love by God. Love for God (philotheia) is associated with the concepts of worship, and devotions towards God. The Greek term theophilia means the love or favour of God, and theophilos means friend of God, originally in the sense of being loved by God...
Charity And Charities In its widest and highest sense, charity and charities includes love of God as well as love of man. The latter kind of love is so closely connected with, and dependent upon, the former, that neither it nor its fruits, under the Christian dispensation, can be adequately...
Charity As Virtue In Christian theology charity, or love (agapē), means an unlimited loving-kindness toward all others. Charity as a virtue is considered as one of the seven virtues and is understood by Thomas Aquinas as “the friendship of man for God”, which “unites us to God”. He holds it as...