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The Betrayal of Charity : The Sins that Sabotage Divine Love /

Love was at one time a powerfully unifying force among Christians. In his letters, Paul consistently evokes charity as the avenue to both human and divine communion. If the magnitude of charity was of the upmost importance to early Christians, so were those sins that aimed to distract Christians fro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levering, Matthew, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Love was at one time a powerfully unifying force among Christians. In his letters, Paul consistently evokes charity as the avenue to both human and divine communion. If the magnitude of charity was of the upmost importance to early Christians, so were those sins that aimed to distract Christians from acting based on love. Taking seriously the efforts of Paul, and later Thomas Aquinas, to expose and root out the sins against charity, Matthew Levering reclaims the centrality of love for moral, and in fact all, theology. As Levering argues, the practice of charity leads to inner joy.
Physical Description:1 online resource (229 pages).
ISBN:9781602583559