I employ James K.A. Smith and George Herbert to evaluate Holy by Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper. These thoughts stemmed from a class discussion on erotic desire.
If you want human beings to move, appeal to what they love. There’s something about desire that pushes us along and pulls us outside of ourselves. Erotic love is not necessarily bad; to desire is human, according to Smith. The question is, “What is our desire pointed to?” Agape is rightly ordered eros. Bieber and Chance offer a picture of rightly ordered eros — imperfectly but resolutely.
