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...Religion [TIME, March 17], your writer discusses the new book by the Very Rev. Martin Cyril D'Arcy, S.J., The Mind and Heart of Love. He refers to "agape (the selfless Christian love for one's neighbor, which Paul called 'charity' . . .)." Of course, St. Paul didn't call it "charity" at all; he spoke Greek and called it "agape...
...Carlyle, "would have dwindled away into a legend." Without its saints and mystics, no religion is long for this world. For the ultimate purpose of religion is not right behavior, or right opinion, or any earthly glory or virtue. Its purpose is that of a window through which the selfless eye may see its way to that final necessity of the human spirit, Godhead and immortality...
Lion & Unicorn. Philosopher D'Arcy is mainly concerned with the twofold aspect of love-eros (love in its selfish, passionate forms) and agape (the selfless Christian love for one's neighbor, which Paul called "charity"). Most philosophical speculation on the subject has posed these two as ancient enemies. They have sometimes been symbolized by the Lion (eros) and the Unicorn (agape) which "went fighting round the town...
...conflict is unnecessary, says Father D'Arcy. After ranging from Aristotle to Jung, he echoes the traditional Catholic synthesis between Greek and biblical elements, concluding that Christian love must be both selfish and selfless...
...Bolsheviks, Lenin's friends, triumphed over Stalin in the first hour of the Moscow Trials. Until the Khozyain (the Boss) woke up to what was happening, they stood accused of struggling with him for power, and the very charge was an admission by Stalin that he, the supposedly selfless Marxist, had fought for power too. Says Rachel...