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Sense and Sensibility: Love Balanced by Wisdom - Anglican (1 Corinthians 13)

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In Sense and Sensibility, Elinor embodies love regulated by wisdom: she loves deeply but doesn't let emotion override judgment; she is patient in waiting, kind even when wounded, doesn't keep record of Lucy's wrongs. Marianne learns that love requires not just feeling but character. The Anglican via media appears in 1 Corinthians 13's balance: love is not mere sentiment ("When I was a child...I gave up childish ways") but mature, reasoned, and habituated virtue. Scripture, tradition, and reason together shape love into wisdom. Anglican love is neither cold duty nor untethered passion but the integrated whole.

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1 Corinthians 13

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