Can Love Replace Law?
Antwerp CAN LOVE REPLACE LAW? Speech by David Arthur Walters Jocelyn Maerkian declined my invitation to attend the Antwerp conference, 'Can Love replace Law?', because of a previous engagement. I was disappointed that she could not attend. Her contributions as a fine person and a theologian would be of interest to those who are here this weekend. She did email a simple answer to the title of our conference, "Can Love Replace Law?" "The law of the universe IS love so it is one and the same." I asked her to elaborate. "It is the law that governs the universe. With love he gave us his life that we may live again." The many atheists here today might be tempted to dismiss Dr. Maerkian's expression of faith as incapable of proof and impertinent to the contingencies and exigencies of actual life. Nevertheless, if we meditate on her expression for awhile, we can find at least some mystical comfort in it. And, an analytical examination might reveal...