Love of The Man in the Panther Skin - a New Philosophical Concept

Abstract

"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God" (1 John, 4.7)

"Rustaveli has a message, almost a gospel"(C.M. Bowra)

The present paper is dedicated to the concept of love of The Man in the Panther Skin proving to be a new theosophical-philosophical one in Christian civilization and concerns a significant change at the transition stage from the Medieval into the Renaissance mentality.

Love is the impulsive force of the ideology and the worldview of the MPS, and it is obvious as they are qualitatively similar to the late medieval European Christian intellectual process; as in the center of Christian ethics there is an idea of love and the definition of God leads to love: "God is love"(1 John, 4, 16).