The Metamorphosis of Love Body, Word and Free Will in <i>On the Song of Songs</i> by Bernard of Clairvaux Pablo Irizar

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irizar, Pablo, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

problem of love.

monastic theology.

phenomenology.

philosophy of religion.

free will.

Local Subjects:

problem of love.

monastic theology.

phenomenology.

philosophy of religion.

free will.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Paderborn Brill | Fink 2023

Biography/History:

Pablo Irizar is currently the holder of the Kennedy Smith Chair in Catholic Studies at the School of Religious Studies of McGill University. He has also been served in the capacity of Director of the Newman Centre of McGill University since 2019. He completed PhDs in philosophy and theology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and at the Catholic University of Paris in France. Moreover, he received the 2020 Louvain Studies Theological Research Award.

Summary:

What is love, what kinds of love are there, how do these relate, and how does the Christian tradition articulate the problem of love in view of the triangulation of self, neighbour and God? In short, what is the relationship between human love (eros) and divine love (agape)? This is the problem of love at the heart of the Chrisitan tradition in which God is love (1 Jn 4.8). A historical overview shows that four models have addressed the problem of love in tradition: univocity, equivocity, analogy and metamorphosis. In the first, eros and agape collapse into one reality. According to the second, eros and agape are mutually exclusive realities. In the third model, eros and agape relate in terms of similarities and only to a limited degree. The model of metamorphosis orients desire towards an integrative and higher transformation of eros and agape. This book develops the model of metamorphosis based on a philosophical reading of "On the Song of Songs" by Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153).

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Note on Texts and Translations

Introduction

Part I. Body

Chapter 1. Experience

1.1 The Beginning of Desire

1.2 The Exercise of the Senses

1.3 Experience in the Beginning

Chapter 2. Desire

2.1 The Desire of the Body

2.2 The Production of a Body

2.3 Desiring-Production as Body

Chapter 3. Bodies

3.1 The Beginning of Production

3.2 Action and Bodies

3.3 Body as Action

Part II. Word

Chapter 4. Extension

4.1 Words of Desire

4.2 Extension of Desire

4.3 The Effusion of the Word

Chapter 5. Attraction

5.1 Word as Force

5.2 The Weight of the Body

5.3 The Body as Force

Chapter 6. Order

6.1 Law and Order

6.2 Love and Order

6.3 The Order of Desire

Part III. Free Will

Chapter 7. Limits

7.1 The Weight of the Word

7.2 Free Will and the Body

7.3 Free Will as Aperity

Chapter 8. Resistance

8.1 The Necessity of the Free Will

8.2 Possibility and Free Will

8.3 Free Will as Desiring-Production

Chapter 9. Aperity

9.1 Free Will as Power

9.2 The Power of Love

9.3 Love of Love as Free Will

Conclusion: Précis for a Triune Ontological Reduction

Bibliography

Index of Terms.

Other Format:

Print version: Irizar, Pablo The Metamorphosis of Love

ISBN:

9783846767504

Publisher Number:

9783846767504