Lewis, Amini , and Lannon (2000). A General Theory of Love . New York: Random House.

1. “Here we have… the living God who reveals himself to us in such a way that he creates in us the capacity to receive and apprehend him; and he communicates himself to us in such a way that he lifts us up into the inner communion of his divine Being so that we are given to share in the mutual knowing of the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit and thus to know God as he is himself in the immanent relations of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” —Torrance, T. (1980). The Ground and Grammar of Theology. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, p. 154.

2. Lewis, Amini, and Lannon (2000). A General Theory of Love. New York: Random House. “Because human physiology is (at least in part) an open loop arrangement, an individual does not direct all of his (or her) own functions. A second person transmits regulatory information that can alter hormone levels, cardiovascular function, sleep rhythms, immune function, and more—inside the body of the first. The reciprocal process occurs simultaneously: the first person regulates the physiology of the second, even as he (or she) is regulated. Neither is a functioning whole on his own; each has open loops that only somebody else can complete. Together they create a stable, properly balanced pair of organisms.” (p. 85).