Man, Woman, and the Meaning of Love: God's Plan for Love, Marriage, Intimacy, and the Family

by Dietrich von Hildebrand

Originally published in 1966. Current edition by Sophia Institute Press, 2002

Introduction - 00:00:11

Chapter 1 - The Nature of Love - 00:04:20

The Laboratory Approach to Love - 00:04:46

Love Does Not Begin with Self-Love - 00:07:46

Love Responds to the Value of the Beloved - 00:11:54

Love is Not Mere Attachment - 00:12:45

Love is Not Merely a Means to Happiness - 00:15:52

Love Affirms the Person of the Beloved - 00:18:04

Love is Not an Appetite - 00:24:01

Love is the Voice of the Heart - 00:28:25

Love is Different from Other Affective Responses - 00:31:28

Love Yearns for Union - 00:33:40

Love Desires Happiness for the Beloved - 00:37:37

by Etienne Gilson

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"Equinitas ergo in se est equinitas tantum."

by Etienne Gilson

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by Etienne Gilson

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Prologue

00:16:54 Chapter 1 - On Being and the One

by Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection

Translated by John J. Delaney

Image Books

Writings first appeared in 1692

00:00:07 Conversations with Brother Lawrence

00:00:10 1st Conversation

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00:14:48 3rd Conversation

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00:25:16 Letters

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01:17:08 Spiritual Maxims

01:19:46 Practices Necessary to Obtain the Spiritual Life

01:24:40 How We Must Adore God in Spirit and in Truth

01:26:26 Of the Union of the Soul with God

01:29:00 Of the Presence of God

01:32:56 Ways of Acquiring the Presence of God

01:36:01 The Benefits of the Presence of God

By Reuben Slife

Reuben Slife is an editor of New Polity: A Journal of Postliberal Thought.

Communio 50 (Winter 2023) © 2023 by Communio: International Catholic Review

Pgs. 735- 756

“For a Christian, it is only in trans-forming that one inherits properly, because each thing—even our suffering under mechanistic meaninglessness—becomes itself only in receiving the form of Christ.”

00:06:36 1. Was the American Founding a Sin?

00:26:37 2. What is Good About America?

00:27:33 2.1 Exterior Achievements 

00:41:25 2.2 Generosity, Religiosity, and Other Cultural Characteristics

00:44:59 2.3 Intentions

00:48:49 Final Paragraph

by Avery Dulles

Avery Dulles, S.J., is Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Theology at Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y. This article is adapted from the McGinley Lecture delivered there Sept. 28.

AMERICA October 23, 1993 Vol. 169 No. 12

00:01:45 1. The Concept of Prophetic Humanism

00:05:21 2. Human Dignity

00:13:11 3. Human Existence as Communal

00:15:15 4. The Family

00:17:33 5. The Order of Culture

00:21:53 6. The Economic Order

00:26:58 7. The Political Order

00:30:44 8. The Church

by W. Norris Clarke

Communio 19 (Winter, 1992) by Communio: International Catholic Review

"The perfection of being - and therefore of the person - is essentially dyadic, culminating in communion."

00:06:36 The Dynamic, Relational Notion of Being

00:25:18 Application to the Person

00:34:03 Receptivity as a Perfection of Being and Person

00:40:58 Objection

00:52:21 Conclusions

by John S. Grabowski

Communio 22 (Spring, 1995) by Communio: International Catholic Review

pgs. 139-163

"The mystery of the human person, created in the image of the triune God, is illumined by revelation as a being who subsists in the communion of love."

00:03:23 I. Patristic Beginnings: The Emergence of Person and Relation

00:09:58 II. Medieval Synthesis: Substance and Subsistent Relation

00:23:57 III. Modern Thought: Deeper Convergence

00:25:44 1. The Person as Subject

00:30:26 2. The Person as Dialogical

00:33:26 3. The Person as Sexual

00:36:04 4. Toward a Relational Metaphysic

00:38:42 IV. Conclusion

by Luigi Giussani

00:02:59 An Extraordinary Historical Reality

00:13:00 The Terms of this New Reality

00:19:02 Instinctive Resistance