Literary Analysis Of Deus Caritas Est

DEUS CARITAS EST In Deus Caritas Est, written by Benedict XVI, talks about love. There are two part of the letter. The first section talks about the love that God has offered to all of us. The second part talks about charity. Also talks about loving neighbors and God. Within the first part of the letter talks about how we use love to describe our feelings for objects and each other. We say we love doing something or a type of music. We have been using the word love so much that the word itself has started losing its meaning. This leads to us not understanding and not practicing love as it is in the Scripture and within the Church’s tradition. Eros, philia, and agape are not the only words that have been used for the word love. There were two Hebrew words that were

Which also connects to another reading that we have had in class. This one is Montagne from our first paper of the semester.

Another reading from class that connects to the letter is The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis. These connect because in both charity is a huge topic. The following quote is an example of the competition. “But God also transforms our Need-love for one another, and it requires equal transformation. In reality we all need at times, some of us at most times, that Charity from others which, being Love Himself in them, loves the unlovable. But this, though a sort of love we need, is not the sort we want. We want to be loved for our cleverness, beauty, generosity, fairness, usefulness.”(Lewis, pg 130)

In the letter and in C.S. Lewis’s reading they both say that caring and helping others is a way to connect to God. Also says the same thing that C.S. Lewis says that love equals which without there would be no peace on the world. There is always going to be people who need help in one way or