Sexual Mores & Divine Eros: Why we need Dante to teach us about love

The liberal world and western churches increasingly seem to suffer from the lack of a sophisticated understanding of erotic love - an approach not merely governed by morals but arising from insight into who we are and our deepest nature. Erotic love can be felt on nearly every page of the Divine Comedy, in perverted and desperate forms, as well as in free and joyous souls. He understood that eros has a goal as it draws us towards God, though that goal is readily thwarted as we traverse its ...