{"id":1900,"date":"2018-07-12T17:44:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T22:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2019-12-21T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T22:08:12","slug":"the-art-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2018\/07\/12\/the-art-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The art of arts is the art of love.\u00a0 Nature, and God, the Author of nature, has reserved to himself the teaching of it.\u00a0 Love itself has been planted [in us] by the Creator of nature; so if its natural noble-mindedness is not destroyed by an kind of adulterous affections, then, I say, love teaches itself to persons who are docile to it, God&#8217;s teachables.&#8221; William of St. Thierry, <em>The Nature and Dignity of Love,<\/em>\u00a0trans. Thomas X. Davis (Kalamazoo, 1981), p. 47.<\/p>\n<p>The monastic writers of the twelfth century focused intently on the nature of love.\u00a0 Drawing on biblical and Latin Fathers, they developed a theology based on Christ&#8217;s love.\u00a0 In this work, William of St. Thierry sought to explain the nature of divine love and its role in the devotional life of a monk.\u00a0 He defined love as &#8220;<strong>a power of the soul, leading her by a kind of natural gravity to her place or destination<\/strong>.&#8221; [Ibid.] (Emphasis added)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The art of arts is the art of love.\u00a0 Nature, and God, the Author of nature, has reserved to himself the teaching of it.\u00a0 Love itself has been planted [in us] by the Creator of nature; so if its natural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2018\/07\/12\/the-art-of-love\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,8,80,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-love","category-medieval","category-theology","category-virtue","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2254,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}