Reciprocal Love Without Subordination

"We know that at the deepest levels of interpersonal relationships - of friend with friend, of man and woman in love - there is always the longing for complete mutual understanding. But we know that it is never in fact complete, and never wholly free from the danger that on subordinates the other, uses the other, manipulates the other. Can there ever be complete reciprocity, or is this an unattainable ideal to be striven for but never reached? Is it a mirage or a reality that can be reached? The Christian testimony is that it is a reality within the being of the Triune God."


Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks, p.89