Two Species of Love

Two categorically distinct species of love — spiritual-divine love ordering the soul toward God, and corporal-disordered love ordering the soul toward creaturely ends — form two different lives (sanctification vs. damnation), with the mind-and-hand analogy governing their structural relationship.

Anchors: 1 John 2:15–17; Romans 8:5–8; Galatians 5:16–17; Matthew 22:37–38 — Appearances: 3. Full Registry entry.