Love and Christian ethics : tradition, theory, society /

At the heart of Christian ethics is the biblical commandment to love God and to love one's neighbor as oneself. But what is the meaning of love? Does love require self-sacrifice? Does it involve eros, or sexual desire? Or is love an enlightened form of friendship? Scholars have wrestled with th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Simmons, Frederick V. (Editor ), Sorrells, Brian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Georgetown University Press : Washington, DC, 2016.
Colección:Moral traditions series.
Temas:
Love > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Christian ethics.
Amour > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Ethics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Tradition. Hebrew Bible and New Testament : love in Deuteronomy and the Sermon on the Mount / Thomas Ogletree
  • Plato and Aristotle : Platonic, Aristotelian, and Christian conceptions of love / Terence Irwin
  • Augustine : how the knowledge and love of God affect ethics / Oliver O'Donovan
  • Aquinas and Kant : practical and pathological love / John Hare
  • Kant and Kierkegaard : interpreting the duty to love / M. Jamie Ferreira
  • Part II. Theory
  • Loving God and neighbor : unity-in-difference / Edward Vacek
  • Loving neighbor and oneself : to what extent can we make another welfare our own? / John Reeder
  • Love and forgiveness : forgiveness in the service of love / Margaret Farley
  • Love and self-sacrifice : why Christian love is essentially self-sacrificial / Edmund N. Santurri
  • Love and eudaimonism : what Christian love means for eudaimonism / Frederick Simmons
  • Love and friendship : Christian love as friendship : a Thomistic interpretation / Stephen Pope
  • Love and virtue : love as a Christian virtue / Gilbert Meilaender
  • Evolution, agape, and the image of God / Tim Jackson
  • Part III. Society
  • Love and law : the strange case of Watts v. Watts / M. Cathleen Kaveny
  • Love and global healthcare : faith, charity, and distributive justice / Lisa Cahill
  • Love and sex : a loving vocation for Christian sexual ethics / Mark Jordan
  • Love and violence : five meditations / Emilie Townes
  • Love and environment : loving nature : Christian environmental ethics / Homes Rolston III
  • Love and religious pluralism : love for God and neighbor given religious pluralism / Eric Gregory
  • Christian love and Judaism : neighbor-love in the Jewish tradition / Ronald Green
  • Christian love and Islam : Muslim and Christian conceptions of neighbor love / John Kelsay
  • Afterword : future trajectories / Gene Outka.

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