The Primacy of Love Sheed By Jacques Maritain | Introduction

By Jacques Maritain | Introduction by Raymond Hain

(Matthew 10:16)

The Seven Last Words from the Cross holds a wealth of insight for the whole of the Christian life

and his commission of brothers in the mission of praise

He died in the service of his beloved France on the eve of the Battle of the Marne

The Primacy of Love Sheed By Jacques Maritain | IntroductionBy August Adam Introduction by Ulrich L. Lehner Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, but degenerated into a vice. Nietzsches Beyond Good and Evil indicts Christianity for the corruption of desire. In his first encyclical, Deus caritas est, Pope Benedict XVI refutes Nietzsche, demonstrating that the Gospel actually restores loves true grandeur. Too often, however, Christian preaching has failed to comprehend that truth. In The