Tag Archives: love

Eros and Flesh in the Devastation

Posted on 12 May 2019 by

Human flesh, like all forms of flesh, is locatable in timespace. We can measure it, we can map it, we can clock its movements. The same may be said for material inanimate entities, yet an important difference remains. We inhabit … Continue reading →

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Is God Properly Described as “Love” in the Theology of John Calvin?

Posted on 27 October 2016 by

by Thomas Talbott, Ph.D.  When I first began to wonder how the Calvinists might interpret the Johannine declaration that God is love (see 1 John 4:8 and 16), I turned immediately to Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion, large portions … Continue reading →

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Meditating Four Quartets: East Coker (V/2)

Posted on 16 March 2015 by

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older / The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated / Of dead and living. Not the intense moment / Isolated, with no before and after, / But a lifetime burning … Continue reading →

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