According to Williams the modern view of romantic love had its source in Dante’s experience of falling in love with Beatrice and his interpretation of this as an experience of grace and salvation. “He is the spring of all modern love literature.”3 Williams claims that the common experience of falling in love can be an experience of the unfallen state of original perfection, of the kingdom of God, and especially an experience of the love and grace of God incarnate in Christ, an experience of salvation. It depends upon what is done with the experience. If it is not seen as an end in itself but rather a beginning, it can be a following of the Christian way, especially in marriage.
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