Strange Love

"The love of God does not find, but creates, that which is pleasing to it. The love of man comes into being through that which is pleasing to it."

Martin Luther, in the Heildelberg disputation. from the 2nd comment on this post.

This just floored me. At least in regard to falling in love and the creative imperative in marriage that dares to call itself "Christian". !!!

Creator of Freedom to Create

I like the quote below because true freedom which can only come from true love is a possibility if what this theologian says is right.

A quote from Schillebeeckx:

If we are created, and that means if we are created in the image of God, then people must be other than conservers, restorers and discovers of what is already given…God creates man as the principle of his own human action, who thus himself has to develop the world and its future and to bring them into being within contingent situations. For God can never be the absolute origin of man’s humanity, in other words, we cannot be a creator, if he makes man only the one who implements a blueprint predetermined by the divine architect.

(thanks to Aaron)