[Corin Stormhands]

And it's one of those subjects where the terminus ad quem is what has a major effect on what is hypothesized: if love is to exist, then those loving must be capable of offering it without constraint. And this means that we must have at least enough free will to freely consent.

Agreed.

I am compelled to ask about the origin of your screenname.

[BelegStrongbow]

Beleg Cuthalion (=Strongbow) is an invented character. Prof Tolkien made him up sometime in the late 1910's while writing about his imaginary Middle-Earth.

Beleg was the MarchWarden of the Hidden Kingdom of Doriath, an elven kingdom guarded by the Maia Melian (one of JRR's many Marian analogs).

In Christ,
Deacon Paul+