Ordo Amoris
Order: Issue Three
In the concluding line of his Divine Comedy, Dante names God "the Love that moves the sun and other stars," thereby giving expression to the ancient conviction that love is a cosmos, a sacred ordering. This is no hollow sentiment, but rather a claim that love alone is adequate for understanding how our world coheres. For in a world of disordered loves driven by the revolt against our given nature, we proclaim some ground other than God's loving condescension in the flesh to be the ultimate ground of our existence. Only the ordo amoris, the rightly ordered structure of divine love, can free us from our miserly estimates of love's proportions and align all things here below to move in harmony with the heavens.