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• Joseph Madriaga said...

  Posted on Jan 17 2009 02:12 Joseph Madriaga
  Stealing Heaven
  Stealing heaven is transcendent movie that I had seen. It is an intellectual and sensual but affectionate real story that surpasses our love stories nowadays. It contains exhausted and unbearable ideas that twist our minds to the combination of philosophy and love in a lovers’ life. Peter Abelard and Heloise were unusual in their way as lovers because of their context and ideologies in life. We need to put in our mind that Stealing heaven the movie is based on the novel of Marion Meade. Since it is a novel, it is not absolutely factual story.
  The church on those time is very powerful, thus, justice did not reign until now. The contribution of St. Augustine in philosophy and theology had deeply penetrated into the mind of the people like, “Must of our belief rest upon trust and authority of the church because of the divine illumination of God. God is more closed to the clerics thus; whosever clerics are really holding the intelligible truths as God plays a very active role in their mind because they are the illuminated men. Even, Peter Abelard knew that Fulbert was the mastermind of his castration; he still speculated that God punished him through Fulbert, a cleric as an illuminated one. Nowadays, it is immoral according to our Christian morality. However those times, the ideas of Augustine were very known especially the divine illumination so people are a servant of the priests and not by God in worldly perspective. Despite Abelard’s castration and physical abused of Fulbert to Heloise, the lovers still loyal to the Church and even at the end of their life, they were still ordained ministers of Christ besides their denial of their marriage.
  I was struck by the argument of Heloise during her refutation to the marriage proposal of Peter Abelard to her. She argued intelligently that “Destiny had made him belong to the world and it would be a great loss were he who was created for the benefit of all to devout himself to one woman only; that the cries of children and the cares of a family were utterly incompatible with the tranquility and the application with a life of study required”. In fact, they were married but they concealed it and Heloise persuaded him to deny the marriage so that he might not kick out from the list of the scholars of their times. If we reflect from the words of love of Heloise, she is not selfish woman because she still insisted to push Peter to achieve his career in life. However, we should not also conclude that she is absolutely true to her conviction but we could not give critique to her using our own context unless we study utterly their context. From her ideologies, we can say that love is not selfish; the lover should support what ever he needs to achieve his goal in life. If we discern the movie, responsibility is there. I am thinking if Heloise is responsible woman because she did not took care of her child Astrolobe.

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• Joseph Madriaga said...

  Posted on Jan 17 2009 02:06 Joseph Madriaga
  Stealing Heaven
  Stealing heaven is transcendent movie that I had seen. It is an intellectual and sensual but affectionate real story that surpasses our love stories nowadays. It contains exhausted and unbearable ideas that twist our minds to the combination of philosophy and love in a lovers’ life. The Peter Abelard and Heloise were unusual in their way as lovers because of their context and ideologies in life. We need to put in our mind that Stealing heaven the movie is based on the novel of Marion Meade. Since it is a novel, it is not absolutely factual story.
  The church on those time is very powerful, thus, justice did not reign until now. The contribution of St. Augustine in philosophy and theology had deeply penetrated into the mind of the people like, “Must of our belief rest upon trust and authority of the church because of the divine illumination of God. God is more closed to the clerics thus; whosever clerics are really holding the intelligible truths as God plays a very active role in his mind because he is the illuminated one. Even, Peter Abelard knew that Fulbert was the mastermind of his castration; he still speculated that God punished him through Fulbert, a cleric as an illuminated one. Nowadays, it is immoral according to our Christian morality. However those times, the ideas of Augustine were very known especially the divine illumination so people are a servant of the priests and not by God in worldly perspective. Despite Abelard’s castration and physical abused of Fulbert to Heloise, the lovers still loyal to the Church and even at the end of their life, they were still ordained ministers of Christ besides their denial of their marriage.
  I was struck by the argument of Heloise during her refutation to the marriage proposal of Peter Abelard to her. She argued intelligently that “Destiny had made him belong to the world and it would be a great loss were he who was created for the benefit of all to devout himself to one woman only; that the cries of children and the cares of a family were utterly incompatible with the tranquility and the application with a life of study required”. In fact, they were married but they concealed it and Heloise persuaded him to deny the marriage so that he might not kick out from the list of the scholars of their times. If we reflect from the words of love of Heloise, she is not selfish woman because she still insisted to push Peter to achieve his career in life. However, we should not also conclude that she is absolutely true to her conviction but we could give critique to her using our own context unless we study utterly their context. From her ideologies, we can say that love is not selfish; the lover should support what ever he wanted to achieve his goal in life. If we discern the movie, responsibility is their. I am thinking if Heloise is responsible woman because she did not took care of her child Astrolobe but in her philosophy, we can understand her why she did that.

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