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A review by kaitib
The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
3.0
I appreciate the concept that no person is expected to give up their natural loves (i.e. love of family) in order to love God, but rather, our love of God can raise our natural loves if those are in the right order.
These two quotes stood out to me the most:
"Theologians have sometimes asked whether we shall 'know one another' in Heaven, and whether the particular love-relations worked out on earth would then continue to have significance. It seems reasonable to reply: 'It may depend what kind of love it had become, or was becoming, on earth.' For, surely, to meet in the eternal world someone for whom your love in this, however strong, had been merely natural, would not be (on that ground) even interesting... In Heaven, I suspect, a love that had never embodied Love Himself would be equally irrelevant. For Nature has passed away. All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."
"Believing in Him, I could then believe in Heaven as corollary. But the reverse process - believing first in reunion with the beloved, and then for the sake of the reunion, believing in Heaven, and finally, for the sake of Heaven, believing in God - this will not work."
These two quotes stood out to me the most:
"Theologians have sometimes asked whether we shall 'know one another' in Heaven, and whether the particular love-relations worked out on earth would then continue to have significance. It seems reasonable to reply: 'It may depend what kind of love it had become, or was becoming, on earth.' For, surely, to meet in the eternal world someone for whom your love in this, however strong, had been merely natural, would not be (on that ground) even interesting... In Heaven, I suspect, a love that had never embodied Love Himself would be equally irrelevant. For Nature has passed away. All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."
"Believing in Him, I could then believe in Heaven as corollary. But the reverse process - believing first in reunion with the beloved, and then for the sake of the reunion, believing in Heaven, and finally, for the sake of Heaven, believing in God - this will not work."