modes of loving may arise developmentally; but they need not supersede one another, even though on a given occasion one or another may take the center of one’s consciousness and intentionality. In such a view, not only can the earlier modes of piety be appreciated as praiseworthy or otherwise, within their own terms and relative to their own concrete circumstances, but they can and should persist alongside the latter modes (much as, in Transactional Analysis, one can be at once Child, Parent, and