The Price of Heavenly Beatitude

"The price of heavenly beatitude is that one be rendered a moral monster," he says. "You don't actually have to have the extreme statements, like Thomas Aquinas or Peter Lombard's." But just the notion that we could enter into perfect beatitude in the absence of some we love and know they are suffering constituting a regret does not make it adequate for what makes us persons has always been a problem. He adds: 'There's a certain sort of impossibility written into the very commandment to love God and neighbor'