The Primacy of Love Bourke Maria herself is one of

Maria herself is one of Mauriac’s most mesmerizing protagonists—mistress to an influential Bordeaux businessman

Louis de Bonald

and the spiritual life

helped rediscover the profound connections between Mariology and ecclesiology

Warren Foundation Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame

The Primacy of Love Bourke Maria herself is one ofBy August Adam Introduction by Ulrich L. Lehner Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, but degenerated into a vice. Nietzsches Beyond Good and Evil indicts Christianity for the corruption of desire. In his first encyclical, Deus caritas est, Pope Benedict XVI refutes Nietzsche, demonstrating that the Gospel actually restores loves true grandeur. Too often, however, Christian preaching has failed to comprehend that truth. In The