
Dcn. Harrison Garlick serves as a Great Books Tutor for the Alcuin Institute, and is the Chancellor of the Diocese of Tulsa.
Dcn. Harrison Garlick serves as a Great Books Tutor for the Alcuin Institute, and is the Chancellor of the Diocese of Tulsa.
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Dcn. Harrison Garlick serves as a Great Books Tutor for the Alcuin Institute, and is the Chancellor of the Diocese of Tulsa.
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[1] Josef Pieper, Faith, Hope, Love (Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1997), 174
[2] C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (Harcourt Books, Inc., Orlando, 1988), 1-2; 91-115.
[3] Pieper, 222, 234.
[4] Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est, 2006, n. 5.
[5] Plato, trans. Seth Benardete, Symposium (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001), 201D.
[6] Symposium, 205D; also, 202C; 204E; one may also say “good,” as good and beauty are both transcendentals for Plato.
[7] Symposium, 206A; 208A-B; 210A-211E.
[8] See Allan Bloom’s essay, “The Ladder of Love,” Symposium, 55, ff.
[9] Symposium, 57, 147; 150.
[10] Caritas, n. 9.
[11] Symposium, 107.
[12] Caritas, n. 10.
[13] Caritas, n. 10.
[14] God cannot have a “need-love,” as he is perfect; thus, God’s use of erotic imagery for his love is understood as an analogy. Though, some Neoplatonic Church Fathers will state, “God is Eros,” but this is only insofar as he loves and knows Himself.
[15] See Anders Nygren, Agape and Eros (Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1953); Thomas M. Osborne, Jr., Love of Self and Love of God in Thirteen-Century Ethics (University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, 2005), 13.
[16] Caritas, n. 2-18.
[17] Pieper, 153, 155; Nygren, 440; Osborne, 14-16.
[18] Caritas, n. 7.
[19] Agape and Eros, 441-42.
[20] Agape and Eros, 432, 443.
[21] Id.,
[22] Id., 446.
[23] Id., 445.
[24] Dante Alighieri, Paradise, Canto XXXI.100.
[25] Caritas, n. 7.
[26] See footnote 14.
[27] Osborne, 13-15.
[28] St. Augustine, trans. F.J. Sheed, Confessions (Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 2006), 3 (I.I.1).
It is beautiful the way you expressed it. Thank you!