No I do not suggest that we love God erotically. Nevertheless Eros should not be discounted. It is one tributary in a river of God's love; one stream that leads us to the ocean of God's love! That I am convinced. We discount Eros because in our patriarchal society we discount women. We want to make distinctions between different kinds of love and rank them from lesser to higher loves, thus discounting the former. However, it is hard to cookie cut love. We risk losing love altogether. Tillich has us start with what we love most as an entry into the divine. We have to start with our feelings, otherwise we are hypocrites talking about love but feeling nothing.
Tad
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