Ordering Love: Liberal Societies and the Memory of God

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Metaphysical study of God, love, technology, and culture in modern society

Reality most basically and properly considered, says David L. Schindler, is an order of love — a gift that finds its objective only in an entire way of life. Love is what first brings things into existence, and everything exists in, through, and for love. With this understanding of reality, Schindler explores how modern culture marginalizes love, regarding it at best as a matter of piety or goodwill rather than as the very stuff that makes our lives and the things of the world real.

Schindler examines how Western civilization� �s fixation with technology � especially its displacement of experience with experiment and its privileging of knowing and making �� has undermined its capacity to build an authentic human culture. Schindler sees this as a technological age not simply because of technological advancements but because of the way we think as the result of our technological orientation. He shows, within the context of politics, economics, science, and cultural and professional life generally, that God-centered love is what gives things their deepest and most proper order and meaning.

Ordering Love: Liberal Societies and the Memory of God Review

Reading David L. Schindler's "Ordering Love" reminded me of my experience of reading von Balthsar's trilogy - that I was being invited to take another look at the "familiar" in the hope of seeing what I am likely to have missed; more specifically, that the (mostly unconscious) assumptions which comprise the intellectual air that we breathe actually prevent us from seeing reality in all of its depth as a gift from God - and our lives as being a response to that gift.

Calling for an "ontology of the gift" (of created being as gift from God), Schindler sets the bar very high in his claim that nothing can be understood in its depth unless it is understood as a gift from (the triune) God. This claim shares in the same radicality as Jesus' "I am the way, the truth, and the life" and "Outside the Church there is no salvation" - parallel statements which, for all their "absolutism", flow consistently from Jesus' claim to be Who He is (and from the nature of Church He established to continue His mission)!

His is a great book!

Nevertheless, one still has to wonder how many people Schindler can hope to reach with his book. As a Catholic, it is easier to sense that Schindler (a "Communio Theologian") is a trustworthy witness and a sound scholar. Like Pope John Paul II's "Theology of the Body," the reader of Schindler's book is being asked to come up higher by a writer who, led by his reason and faith, has seen something profound - something that, in principle, can be seen by everyone (if only in a mirror dimly). In a word, Schindler's book is an invitation: "If you would understand yourself, open your mind to the Creator whose first gift to you is your existence. Then testify to what you see."

Your suffering may be that others will not see what you see.

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