Love's Theology

Love so you may understand, says Aristotle I read this with a vague startle. Love's no ordinary knowledge, says Foucault who made power/knowledge into an occult. Love thy neighbor, says the Lord I'm in complete accord but with the caveat he changes his old coat. Love is absurd, says Camus an existential muse. But for Sartre love is joy in action a fine contraption. For Luther it meant divine agape in tension with eros's landscape. I settle with Plato's art of beauty and Rousseau's free will instead of duty. All that's best in theology of love particularly Dr. King's gift of love, yet beware of perils of self-love.