Cong dilectio dao caritas : Aogusiding ruhe zai diyi juan zhong lunzheng 'ai' (caritas) shi quanshi xue de zuizhong mudi 從dilectio到caritas：奧古斯丁如何在《論基督教教義》第一卷中論證“愛”（caritas）是《聖經》詮釋學的最終目的 = From dilectio to caritas: How Augustine Argues in Book I of De Doctrina Christiana that “Love” (Caritas) is the Ultimate End of Biblical Hermeneutics / by Li Hao 李浩

https://ccspub.cc/jrcc/article/view/450

Published in Zhongguo jidujiao yanjiu 中國基督教研究 = Journal of Research for Christianity in China, no.26 (2026) : 51-87.

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Abstract:

本文聚焦於奧古斯丁在《論基督教教義》第一捲中“愛”的術語問題，從《聖經》詮釋學的視角出髮，論証奧古斯丁通過將“愛”從 dilectio 轉化成 caritas，爲《聖經》詮釋中的“愛”賦予了三個遞進層次的內涵：行動層麵的愛、關繫層麵的愛和實體層麵的愛。他以在“使用-享受”的二分法中處理《馬太福音》中“愛的誡命”爲起點，將行動層麵的 dilectio 引向關繫層麵的 caritas，進而説明了“增進愛”是《聖經》詮釋學的中心任務，dilectio 在行動方麵的內涵也被納入了 caritas。最後，奧古斯丁暗示了 caritas 在綜合了行動和關繫之後所具有的實體性，這種實體性在“聖靈是愛”這一命題中得以明確，caritas 也由此具有了堅固《聖經》權威的力量。故此，caritas 成爲了奧古斯丁的《聖經》詮釋學的最終目的。

This article addresses the terminology of “love” in Book I of Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana. From the perspective of biblical hermeneutics, it aims to demonstrate how Augustine, by shifting the terminology from dilectio to caritas, endows “love” with three progressive layers of meaning within the interpretation of the Bible: love as action, love as relation, and love as substance. Beginning with his treatment of the “commandment of love” in the Gospel of Matthew within the dichotomy of usus-fruitio(use-enjoy), Augustine leads dilectio, as an action, toward caritas, as a relation. He thereby establishes that the central task of biblical hermeneutics is “enhancing love”, and the connotation of dilectio in terms of action is subsumed into caritas. Ultimately, Augustine alludes to the substantial nature of caritas which integrates both action and relation. This substantiality is explicitly manifested in the proposition that “the Holy Spirit is love,” through which caritas acquires the power to fortify the authority of Scripture. Therefore, caritas becomes the ultimate end of Augustine’s biblical hermeneutics.