RE103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Humility, Omnipotence, Original Sin
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Remember this discussion of ontological rootedness, as well. Love is the fruit of age, not youth. Youth too impulsive talk to older people about love, listen to them. The journey is to learn a passionate attentiveness that opens us to the lives of our loved ones. May is building his own philosophy of love. That love is the most important spiritual practice in life. Sex must be for procreation, not recreation. Love is a great mystical connection to the divine, almost erotic- spiritual. Love is an all-conquering power that redeems everyday life and suffering. Love in the synoptic gospels (cid:858) y(cid:374)(cid:859) - a prefix occurring in words borrowed from greek, having the same function as (cid:858)(cid:272)o-(cid:858); it (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s (cid:862)(cid:449)ith,(cid:863) (cid:862)together,(cid:863) A lot of what we think about the central importance of love in christianity comes from the gospel of john. Yet in the synoptics, nowhere does jesus communicate our normal understandings of live in christianity.
