A very interesting post from Brittian Bullock on Religion-less Religion... worth reading and reflecting on.
I’ve taken up the Augustinian question, that Caputo alliterates, “who do I love when I love my God?” And I’m trying to find a working articulation of what exactly I mean when I speak of God. Personally, I am coming to the Johannian (as in the epistle writer) view, that the first name of God, is love. That love, in all its forms, pure love is God. Love is something intangeble…always drawing us into action, but never quite resolving in that event…it requires more of us. God is that which we desire, but also that which desires us and pulls and propells us towards the event of love. Love in this case is so deeply intimate that to describe it impersonal, or unrelational, would be to demote it. Love requires such relating and such personhood.
Hey Mark, very thought provoking - I've been pondering 'if God is love, is love God?' for some time...
Posted by: Simon | 16/04/2009 at 19:26
have a friend who has battled with life threatening cancer - she says love is the only thing that matters at all.
Posted by: chrissie jupp | 20/04/2009 at 22:27