{"id":1880,"date":"2018-05-19T10:10:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T15:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2018-08-04T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T19:31:15","slug":"memory-understanding-and-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2018\/05\/19\/memory-understanding-and-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory, Understanding, and Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now this trinity* of the mind is God&#8217;s image, not because the mind remembers, understands and loves itself; but because it has the power also to remember, understand and love its Maker.\u00a0 And it is in so doing that it attains wisdom.\u00a0 If it does so, the memory, understanding and love of itself is no more than an act of folly.\u00a0 Let the mind then remember its God, in whose image it was made, let it understand him and love him.\u00a0 In a word, let it worship the uncreated God who created it with the capacity for himself, and in whom it is able to be a partaker.&#8221; Augustine, <em>On the Trinity<\/em> XIV. 15. xii. trans. John Burnaby in <em>Augustine: Later Works<\/em> (Philadelphia, 1955), p. 115.<\/p>\n<p>*Augustine identifies this trinity of the human mind as memory, understanding, and the will.\u00a0 Medieval theologians, for example, Bernard of Clairvaux and the Cistercians adopted this idea and applied to their understanding of the human soul and religious devotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now this trinity* of the mind is God&#8217;s image, not because the mind remembers, understands and loves itself; but because it has the power also to remember, understand and love its Maker.\u00a0 And it is in so doing that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2018\/05\/19\/memory-understanding-and-will\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-augustine-of-hippo","category-memory","category-will","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}