Summary of Motion and Love

Here is a summary of Stephen Fields magnificent article (Stephen M Fields SJ. ”God’s Labor, Novelty’s Emergence: Cosmic Motion As Self-Transcending Love.” In vol. 1 of Love Alone Is Credible: Hans Urs von Balthasar as Interpreter of the Catholic Tradition. Ed. David L Schindler. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmanns, 2008: 115-40):

“In classical realism, change produces no novelty in the real order. Karl Rahner challenges this based on a view of substance that places form and matter in an inter-relation. This inter-relation implies that infinite being is immanent in and transcendent to substances. It also implies that the finite order is contingent, not necessary, and therefore freely posited. Freedom entails love. Invested with love, infinite being is thus the personal God. As free Creator, God charges potency with a loving surplus of being. In turn, this surplus explains how novelty can emerge when substances change. As love, God also draws all change to God’s self as absolute final cause.”

Motion and Love

Love, Ignatius opines, consists principally in a mutual sharing of goods. As the paradigm of love, God he says, is a laborer who works in creation by dwelling in it, filling it with life, and conserving it in being. Brimming forth love from his infinite superabundance, God issues all blessings and gifts “as the rays of light descend from the sun, and as the waters flow from their fountains.” In recompense, what more can a human being who enjoys such unmerited bounty do but make his own self-offering to the divine self-offering he receives? ” You have given all to me,” the retreat ant is counseled to pray, “to You I return it.”

Stephen Fields, “God’s Labor, Novelty’s Emergence: Cosmic Motion as Self-Transcending Stephen M Fields SJ. ”God’s Labor, Novelty’s Emergence: Cosmic Motion As Self-Transcending Love.” In vol. 1 of Love Alone Is Credible: Hans Urs von Balthasar as Interpreter of the Catholic Tradition. Ed. David L Schindler. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmanns, 2008: 115-40.

Sin and Stephen Crane

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”

Luther: Sin is the curving of the soul in on itself

Paul Celan

“The world is gone, I must carry you”

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Sin

“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at the belly and it might side out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it. It’s the Day blood. Something’s wrong with it” (Gilian Flynn, Dark Places) 1.