Saint Cyprian´s ideas on "love thy neighbour"

Abstract

«Charity is a supernatural gift of God by which we love God above all things, and our neighbour as ourselves for God's sake . This definition of the virtue of charity, widely accepted, is based on the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas. The study of this virtue is always of significance because it is the object of the firts two commandments, a summary of all the law and the prophets.