Jesus the Liberator of Desire. Author's Response

Sebastian Moore, Redemptive Transformation, and the Law of the Cross

“…Sin leads to death. This first step of the Law of the Cross is almost a tautology: the willful failure to respond to the exigences of self-transcendence heads toward the death of our authentic humanity, and, delving into a variety of authors, Moore discovered what he termed psychological parables of original sin 32 that verified and illumined this first step. These 'parables' also, as Louis Roy has perceived, served as the basis for a heuristic account of how, in encountering the risen Christ, one encounters a love and forgiveness that empowers one to let go of the false security to which basic sin condemns us, to die to the inauthentic, distorted selves that sin produces.…”

Desiring and Being Desired by Christ: Sebastian Moore’s Notion of Desire in Dialogue with Ignatian Spirituality

“…As he wrote, 'my theme is desire'. 1 In fact, he dedicated himself to developing an anthropologic understanding of human desire in dialogue with Christian faith and theology, a true Theology of Desire. It integrates both a theoretical/philosophical dimension as much as an experimental/mystical/psychological one.…”

The Liturgical Body

“…In Adam a logos would be divine, ashamed of the flesh that proved him a creature; in Christ the Logos would become human, befriending the flesh to make us divine. 27 Elsewhere Wannenwetsch turns christological too.…”