THE LOVE BETWEEN FAITH AND REASON; A CONFRONTATION IN THE MIDST OF PAULINISM AND CAMONIAN

Abstract

Love comes from God, whoever loves knows God, because He is love, although it is impossible to understand His designs and His love. The studies rescued the Greek concepts about love Storge, Philia, Eros and Agape, then the unique faith of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 13 and the brilliant Neoplatonic poem 'love is fire that burns' by Camões. In view of the Pontiff's request for approximation between faith and reason, the objective of the article was: to analyze love in a perspective of approximation and/or confrontation between faith and reason. For this construct, the methodology assumed a qualitative approach, exploratory type and bibliographic profile inspired by the Holy Scriptures, articles, theses, dissertations and books. The finding was that the abstraction or abscission of Agape Love substantially diminishes the vision and greatness of love, in the end a possible model of Love between faith and reason was presented.