Anyone who loves another person deeply is generally exposed to one of two opposing but closely related dangers: turning the other into an idol for whom every last measure of freedom must be sacrificed, or reducing them to a body to be possessed. Timothy Radcliffe calls the first obsession and the second concupiscence. In To Love in Freedom, he considers both through the lens of an action that, at first sight, seems to have little to do with eros: the sharing of bread at the Last Supper.
Desire: Between Freedom and Possession
Chastity as a form of genuine love, and the Eucharist as a criterion for recognising falsehood, domination and betrayal.
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