By Jacques Ellul
ISBN-10: 0802836585
ISBN-13: 9780802836588
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72 VARIOUS BELIEFS not love under constraint. We can love only in the depths of personal freedom. We have to be free to demonstrate love. We have to be free either to initiate it or to respond to the love of another. No constraint, whether moral, social, or contingent, can give rise to love or reciprocate it. There is no imperative here. Love arises only on the path of freedom as two freedoms meet. But reciprocally, there is no freedom without love. This is less easily acknowledged. We wrongly think that liberty means destroying some despotic power or acting as we will without compulsion.
It is love perhaps that makes us by edifying us. No one has ever been able to "make" love. At best we live it. But this is another matter. For many people, however, love is no more than making love. No matter with whom! And the partner is no longer flesh of my flesh or bone of my bone or more myself than I am. The partner is simply a partner in a game or in momentary pleasure. This is what love has become. Am I a romantic? If so, then people five thousand years before Jesus Christ were romantics.
To arrive at this union, it is not enough for a couple to go to bed together or to play together. For a full and complete union there has to be a growth of love. The two have to go through the stages that I have sketched, to overcome the temptations, to accept the common responsibilities, to recognize their otherness even while maintaining unity in dialogue, to become progressively inseparable and not to be strangers living side by side. Love as union accepts the impossibility of separation. This is why it is also so tragic, for it is toward the end of life that this inseparability is accepted, at the very moment when death threatens both the one and the other.
What I Believe by Jacques Ellul
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