Agape and Bhakti with Bataille and Mark at Loyola and St. Francis. David L. Goicoechea
ethics with Jesus
IV.3.7 And not the Self-Realization Ethics even of the Gita
IV.3.8 The Christ of John of the Cross leads Bataille to Torment
IV.3.9 And Teaches him to Renounce his Ego and Himself
Part Two: The Wisdom of Love
I. In Franciscan Spirituality
I.4 And He Leaves Her and the Seminary for Loyola
I.4.1 Fraternity
I.4.2 Mirth
I.4.3 Trust
1.4.4 Hope
I.4.5 Intimacy
I.4.6 Individuality
I.4.7 Communality
I.5 Growing in the Love of Wisdom at Loyola
I.5.1 By Studying Sartre’s Being and Nothingness
I.5.2 By Studying Kierkegaard’s Sickness Unto Death
I.5.3 By Studying Nietzsche’s Anti-Christ
I.5.4 By Studying Heidegger’s Being and Time
I.5.5 By Studying Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations
I.5.6 By Studying Scheler’s On the Eternal in Man
I.5.7 By Writing my Master’s Thesis on John Wild’s Existentialism
I.5.8 By Studying Gilson and Maritain
I.5.9 By Studying the Philosophy of Josiah Royce
I.6 Learning the Wisdom of Love with the Franciscan Sisters
I.6.1 Graced with a New Feeling for the Beautiful Holy
I.6.2 Sr. Helen Marie Taught me the Franciscan Wisdom of Love.
I.6.3 I Came to have Special Friendships with Some Students
I.6.4 For Barbara Henning and I Worked Very Much Together.
I.6.5 And Kathleen Thompson Taught Me How to Drive
I.6.6 And Sarah Jungels Took me Home with Her
I.6.7 We had an Adult Education Course on Love
I.6.8 And with Fr. Ernest I Taught the Old Testament
I.6.9 And I Loved Five Beautiful Young Sisters
II. And Mark’s Agapetos
II.4 The Agapetos Reveals the Abba Father’s Childlike Agape
II.4.1 And the Twelve Must Trust Him like Children
II.4.2 Even Though They Might be Killed like John the Baptist
II.4.3 Jesus Feeds the Crowds Who are Like Hungry Children
II.4.4 And Jesus Shows How the Father Loves the Sick
II.4.5 And Jesus Teaches a True Childlike Reverence
II.4.6 But His Disciples Do Not Understand Him
II.4.7 For They Do Not Yet Understand an Agapeic Heart
II.4.8 And How Jesus Will Love Them as He Has
II.4.9 Jesus Ironically Lets the Blind Man See
II.5 The Agapetos Reveals his Eternal Agape
II.5.1 At his Transfiguration he is again called the Agapetos
II.5.2 His First Prophecy of his Passion and Resurrection
II.5.3 The Agapetos’ Altruistic Love implies his Eternal Love
II.5.4 Jesus Teaches them of Agapeic Prayer.
II.5.5 His Second Prophecy of his Passion and Resurrection
II.5.6 The Agapetos’ Eternal Agape is Childlike
II.5.7 His third Prophecy of his Death and Resurrection
II.5.8 The Disciples begin to Understand Agape as Eternal
II.5.9 Faith in Agape Grows through Prayer
II.6 Agape, the Greatest Commandment of All
II.6.1 Is further Explained in the 5th Major Section
II.6.2 Which begins with his Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem
II.6.3 An Agape that Curses Fig Trees to teach Forgiveness.
II.6.4 And that curses Money Changers in the Temple
II.6.5 These days of preparing them for Agape
II.6.6 Getting your Mind and Heart Right with Respect to Taxes
II.6.7 And Beginning to ponder the Resurrection of the Body
II.6.8 Agape with all our Heart, Soul, Mind and Strength
II.6.9 And Agape for our Neighbor as we have it for ourself.
III. And The Tamil Culture
III.4 How Krishna’s Bhakti can bring Persons to Jesus’ Agape
III.4.1 From a Self-Realization to an Other Realization Ethics
III.4.2 From a Universal to a Missionary Universal Love
III.4.3 From a Spiritual to a Fully Personal Eternal Love
III.4.4 From a Conditional Bhakti to an Unconditional Agape
III.4.5 From a Sophisticated Bhakti to a Childlike Agape
III.4.6 From Bhakti’s Stages of Purity to Agapeic Celibacy
III.4.7 From a Limited to an Unlimited Missionary Task
III.4.8 From the Purgatory of Rebirth to Agapeic Purgatory
III.4.9 From Loving God to an Agapeic Love of Neighbor too
III.5 The Dravidian Background of the Gita’s Bhakti
III.5.1 What made Possible the Gita’s Leap Forward with Bhakti?
III.5.2 The God Siva in Early Tamil Texts
III.5.3 The Sudden Appearance of Bhakti in Southern India
III.5.4 Bhakti in Three Early Tamil Texts
III.5.5 The Dravidian Siva in the Pattinappali
III.5.6 The Dravidian God, Siva, in the Tolkappiyam
III.5.7 Dravidian Love in the Tirukkural
III.5.8 Tamil Bhakti in the Kural
III.5.9 South India’s Ancient Bhakti cult
III.6 A Study of Bhakti and Philosophy with Singh
III.6.1 Seeing Bhakti in its Wider Context
III.6.2 The Term bhag the Root of Bhakti is in the Vedas
III.6.3 The Meaning of Bhaj and its Relation to Prema
III.6.4 The Root of Singh’s Disagreement with Dhavamony
III.6.5 Does the Bhakti of the Gita Arise from Secular Love?
III.6.6 Does Singh’s Argument Against Dhavamony Work?
III.6.7 The Singh-Dhavamony Debate
III.6.8 Makes us Think More Deeply into Agape and Bhakti
III.6.9 Raj Singh, the Sikh, and Guru Nanak
IV. And The Sacred’s Secrets
IV.4 Childlike Love and Bataillean Art
(From Bataille to Breton, Sartre and Marcel)
Beyond the Project of Self-Realization Ethics
The Vocation of Mark’s Jesus to his Disciples and the Women
The Gita and the Eight Steps of Patanjalis’ Yoga
IV.4.1 Sartre Does Not Appreciate Bataille’s Altruistic Ethics
IV.4.2