Love and Christian Ethics
Tradition, Theory, and Society
Description:... Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Conjunctive Approach to Christian Love -- PART I: TRADITION -- 1 Interpreting the Love Commands in Social Context: Deuteronomy and Jesus's Sermon on the Mount -- 2 Conceptions of Love, Greek and Christian -- 3 "Repellent Text": The Transition from Wisdom to Ethics in Augustine's Confessions 10 -- 4 The Desire for Happiness and the Virtues of the Will: Resolving a Paradox in Aquinas's Thought -- 5 Kant on Practical and Pathological Love -- 6 Kierkegaard and Kant on the "Duty to Love"--PART II: THEORY -- 7 The Problematic Love for God: "Love the Lord, All You Saints" (Psalm 31:23) -- 8 Empathy, Compassion, and Love of Neighbor -- 9 Forgiveness in the Service of Love -- 10 Agape as Self-Sacrifice: The Internalist View -- 11 Eudaimonism and Christian Love -- 12 Christian Love as Friendship: Engaging the Thomistic Tradition -- 13 Evolution, Agape, and the Image of God: A Reply to Various Naturalists -- PART III: SOCIETY -- 14 Love, Justice, and Law: The Strange Case of Watts v. Watts -- 15 Global Health Justice: Love as Transformative Political Action -- 16 Love in the Vocation of Christian Sexual Ethics: A Theologico-Political Meditation -- 17 Meditations on Love and Violence -- 18 Loving Nature: Christian Environmental Ethics -- 19 The Double Love Command and the Ethics of Religious Pluralism -- 20 Neighbor Love in the Jewish Tradition -- 21 Neighbor Love in Muslim Discourse -- Afterword -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
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