In his words: «Perhaps the encounter with the transpersonal existence of the Buddhist, the recognition of the serenity and strength it embodies, the experience of Buddhist meditation, and the study of Buddhist philosophy will give us the courage to venture into that kind of
radical love which can carry us into a postpersonal form of Christian existence» (Cobb 1975, 220).
Not exact matches
In a
radical movement, God unfolds himself into the world
which he
loves.
Moreover, Jesus» correspondence to God's deepest nature (his «freedom
which is
love») allowed him his
radical liberation from the «dead seriousness» of history, says Moltmann; the laughter of Easter reveals that life can indeed be taken playfully, 50
For the
love which is made incarnate and powerful in Christ's presence among men is a
love which involves a
radical transformation of all earthly
loves in the light of the Kingdom.
In sum, what the hippies found is that when the call to
love one another isn't being matched enough by the actual feeling (and doesn't even seem to be working for the really
radical ones out on the commune), and when the life immersed in drugs, hedonism, festivals, personal drama, and song can no longer keep one from noticing this, there's always the old stand - by, the enemy,
which can be evoked to bring «us» together.
It is not the fruitfulness of marriage that he draws upon, not the possibility of procreation, but, in Audet's words, «an aspect
which is in a sense much more
radical, and
which is more specifically human, namely that of
love.
Being constantly reminded on the one hand of the infinite gap between one's own limited talents and vision and the perspective of Almighty God, and on the other of the
radical equality with
which God judges and
loves the human race is a healthy counterweight to the flattery of the world and the smugness that comes with success.
But if our thesis that the work of redemption includes a work of creation in
which human creative effort shares is valid, then this
radical separation between the divine
love and man's works of
love must be shown to be a distortion of the fact.
If there be a place for the assumption of the moral risks of compromise in the way of
love, there is also place for renunciation
which involves
radical attack on everything
which stands in the way of the new order
which God wills.
When I read the New Testament, I hear two voices, one a voice of
radical Love, the other a voice of «we're right, and we know you are right only if you agree with us,»
which is, as I see it, the voice of ego.
Schweitzer's
radical demonstration of
love in the form of unpretentious human service, under conditions
which involve personal renunciation, corresponds directly to St. Francis's rule of
love and humility as the authentic foundation of a way of life free from attachments of privilege and power.
Failing to grasp adequately «the
radical discontinuity (maior dissimilitudo) between the divine
love revealed by God - and indeed the (supernatural)
love to
which we are called - and sexual
love or intercourse,» West tends, according to Schindler, to reduce all
love and even the Christian mysteries to sex.
Cacao lovers reap tons of body -
loving benefits of
which include enhanced memory, improved blood flow and lower blood pressure, and protection against free
radical oxidation due to cacao's ample amount of antioxidants.
Radical self
love is a personal process in
which you examine your thoughts and behaviour and relentlessly toss anything that is hindering you from being your best, most salubrious self.
It is this test of their
love — and even more, the
radical mutation their
love undergoes when put to this test — on
which Amour pivots.
(It also recalls the miracle of Agnès Varda and JR's Faces Places [2017], in
which large - format photographs, laboriously mounted on buildings and other structures, become a
radical act of
love by seeing, magnifying, and honoring the everyday.)
While now commonly lauded as transgressive and
radical, her work,
which often portrays her
love affair with the late artist Dieter Roth, has been subject to frequent censorship since the 1960s.