Why has the world lost sight of reality? Who can lead us back to it?
The Metaphysics of Love turns to the masters for direction. Part I of this book lays down the fundamentals by mining the depths of Greek genius and Scholastic wisdom to discover the structure of reality. Their insights include the staggering Trinitarian traces to be found in even the smallest of creatures, and the unexpectedly solid harmony of the one, true, good and beautiful. For men hungry for reality, the Gospel raised civilisation while metaphysics laid out the natural foundation for it. Yet both natural and supernatural truth have endured increasingly open assault since the Reformation, until we have crashed into a world where the public square is dominated by anti-reality lies, terminating in transhumanism.
Having presented reality is the way to life, next Part II takes a hard look at the systemisation of evil. It is not easy to face the blasphemies and literal hatred of being, but happily the total collapse of evil is a metaphysical and theological necessity.
In closing, Part III examines what love means for man: how immortal spirits may really unite to dwell reciprocally within one another. In Christ, the life of grace leads to the beatific vision, our approach to Heaven begun now on Earth, through understanding and loving as mutual, spiritual indwelling. It is for this that we have a mind and a will — a head and a heart. Through His Incarnation, Jesus Christ unites contingent being, including us, with necessary being, God. He calls rational creatures to enter the greatest conceivable reality, being of immense scope, drawing people from around the world, throughout the centuries, to live true life with the Triune God and all the angels and saints.
Being has one, living source. Metaphysics does not dissolve mysteries; it brings them into focus, most notably the Blessed Trinity, the Holy Eucharist and love itself.
Aristotelean-Thomistic Realism. Choose life.
About the Author
Fr. Mawdsley
Born in 1973, James Mawdsley grew up in Lancashire, England. During 17 months of solitary confinement as a prisoner of conscience in Burma (in 1998 and 1999-2000), he received the Bible which helped turn his cell from “hell to heaven”, beginning a passion for studying Scripture. From 2003 to 2004 he served as Secretariat to the British-North Korean All-Party Parliamentary Group, sitting in on high-level political-military meetings in Pyongyang and London. Having met former prisoners and guards who had defected, Mawdsley’s priority in arranging these exchanges was to challenge the North Korean government for their gulag system. Slowly realising the futility of political attempts to overcome evil unless Jesus Christ is honoured as King of Kings, Mawdsley was surprised on 3rd September 2005 by a crystal-clear call to the priesthood. Fr Mawdsley was ordained a Catholic priest in 2016, celebrating the traditional Roman rite only. His New Old book series, a discovery of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament read in the light of the New, is offered both for spiritual nourishment and to address the problem of evil: personal (our own sin), global (look around!) and cosmic (satan). Christus vincit!