The Personalist Vision of Love & Marriage
3rd Annual Summer Seminar
July 15 – July 19, 2013

Love is not a decision; it is an affection. Love is not in the will, but in the heart.
Dr. Mark Roberts
“The Personalist Vision of Love and Marriage” examined the essential character of love as expressed within the personalist tradition, notably in Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Nature of Love and Marriage, as well as Karol Wojtyla’s Love and Responsibility.
With Hildebrand’s key insight that love is an affective, super-actual value-response as a guidepost, our speakers considered the role of affectivity and will in love, reconsidering the classical idea that love can be adequately explained as “willing the good” of another. In dialogue with many traditions, including new natural law, we considered the role of self-gift, purity, shame, and family.
Love and Marriage – Videos
Love as a Value Response according to Dietrich von Hildebrand (1/2)
Hildebrand Summer Seminar 2013: The Personalist Vision of Love and Marriage.
Day 1: The Dignity of Human Love (1/4)
Dr. John F. Crosby on love as a value response according to von Hildebrand. Setting the stage: Kierkegaard's doubts about the dignity of human love, followed by von Hildebrand's defense.
Love as a Value Response according to Dietrich von Hildebrand (2/2)
Hildebrand Summer Seminar 2013: The Personalist Vision of Love and Marriage.
Day 1: The Dignity of Human Love (2/4)
Dr. John F. Crosby on love as a value response according to von Hildebrand. Setting the stage: Kierkegaard's doubts about the dignity of human love, followed by von Hildebrand's defense.
Critics of Dietrich von Hildebrand's Conception of Love (1/2)
Hildebrand Summer Seminar 2013: The Personalist Vision of Love and Marriage
Day 1: The Dignity of Human Love (3/4)
Dr. John F. Crosby and Dr. Maria Wolter
Critics of Dietrich von Hildebrand's Conception of Love (2/2)
Hildebrand Summer Seminar 2013: The Personalist Vision of Love and Marriage
Day 1: The Dignity of Human Love (4/4)
Dr. Maria Wolter
The Role of the Heart and the Will in Dietrich von Hildebrand's Vision of Love
Hildebrand Summer Seminar 2013: The Personalist Vision of Love and Marriage
Day 2: Love and the Heart; Love and the Desire to be Loved (1/4)
Dr. Maria Wolter on the role of the heart and the will in von Hildebrand's vision of love.
Karol Wojtyla's View of the Role of the Will and the Heart in Love.
Hildebrand Summer Seminar 2013: The Personalist Vision of Love and Marriage
Day 3: Love and the Heart; Love and the Desire to be Loved (2/4)
Dr. Jules van Schaijik
2013 Seminar Faculty

Mark Roberts

Jules van Schaijik

John F. Crosby
