• Kenneth A. Bryson: Editorial ForewordPrefaceIntroductionAugustine: The Experience of LoveInterpreting Love in AugustineNature and KnowledgeProblems with Love in AugustineTruth, Conversion, and ConflictAugustine’s Intellectual JourneyManichean ConversionPlotinian InfluencesFrom “Darkness” to the Free WillAugustine and PelagianismAugustine on GraceAugustinianism: Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesEarly Modern PhilosophyGasparo ContariniL’École Française and Pierre de BérulleGuillaume GibieufWilliam ChalmersJansen of YpresScotus Eriugena and Dionysius the AreopagiteDivine Amplitude: The Agency of LoveMalebranche and the Love of GodMalebranche, Lamy, and Norris“Vision in God”John Norris: Malebranche’s DiscipleGod’s KnowledgeThree Letters to Bernard LamyVision in God and Divine LoveSweetness of GodRalph Cudworth and the DivineFree WillCudworth’s God of LoveHuman Response to Divine LoveCudworth and AugustineConclusionWorks CitedAbout the AuthorIndex

“A carefully nuanced overview of the way in which the Augustinian notion of the “Love of God” came to be developed within later Counter-Reformation … a useful introduction to a raging debate that undergirded the tumultuous Reformations of the early modern period. … opens a door for students of theology as well as of early modern philosophy. …. Social and cultural historians will also benefit from reading this work as a way to better understand some of the grand intellectual themes which served to frame both social and cultural currents of this period”Sixteenth Century Journal – XLV /2 (2014)