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In his masterwork, Die geestelijke brulocht (The Spiritual
Espousals), the fourteenth-century Flemish mystic Jan van Ruusbroec used
his profound knowledge of Trinitarian theology to show that the apex of
the spiritual life consists in our being taken up into the love of the
three persons of the blessed Trinity. The care and precision with which
Ruusbroec describes the ascent from "the active life" to "the interior
life" and from there to the culmination of "the contemplative life" is
evident in the way he carefully distinguishes between three terms that
could all be translated as "love": minne, karitate, and
liefde. James Wiseman's astute reading of Ruusbroec's treatise
shows how the affective aspect of love (liefde) and the aspect
that expresses itself in virtuous activity (karitate) are both
subsumed under the all-embracing reality of minne, the love that
flows forth from the triune God and then draws us back to a blissful
reunion with our loving Source.
