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Love and Christian ethics : tradition, theory, and society / edited by Frederick V. Simmons with Brian C. Sorrells.

Contributor(s): Simmons, Frederick V [editor.] | Sorrells, Brian [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Moral traditions series: Publisher: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: vii, 400 pages ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781626163676; 1626163677Subject(s): Love -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Christian ethicsDDC classification: 241/.4 LOC classification: BV4639 | .L663 2016Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Interpreting the love commands in social context: Deuteronomy and Jesus's Sermon on the Mount / Thomas Ogletree -- Conceptions of love, Greek and Christian / Terence Irwin -- "Repellent text": the transition from wisdom to ethics in Augustine's Confessions 10 / Oliver O'Donovan -- The desire for happiness and the virtues of the will: resolving paradox in Aquinas's thought / Jean Porter -- Kant on practical and pathological love / John Hare -- Kierkegaard and Kant on the "duty to love" / M. Jamie Ferreira -- The problematic love for God: "love the lord, all you saints" (Psalm 31:23 / Edward Collins Vacek -- Empathy, compassion, and love of neighbor / John P. Reeder Jr. -- Forgiveness in the service of love / Margaret A. Farley -- Agape as self-sacrifice: the internalist view / Edmund N. Santurri -- Eudaimonism and Christian love / Frederick V. Simmons -- Christian love as friendship: engaging the Thomistic tradition / Stephen J. Pope -- Evolution, agape, and the image of God: a reply to various naturalists / Timothy P. Jackson -- Love, justice, and law: the strange case of Watts v. Watts / M. Cathleen Kaveny -- Global health justice: love as transformative political action / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Love in the vocation of Christian sexual ethics: a theologico-political meditation / Mark D. Jordan -- Meditations on love and violence / Emilie M. Townes -- Loving nature : Christian environmental ethics / Holmes Rolston III -- The double love command and the ethics of religious pluralism / Eric Gregory -- Neighbor love in the Jewish tradition / Ronald M. Green -- Neighbor love in Muslim discourse / John Kelsay.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Tradition. Interpreting the love commands in social context: Deuteronomy and Jesus's Sermon on the Mount / Thomas Ogletree -- Conceptions of love, Greek and Christian / Terence Irwin -- "Repellent text": the transition from wisdom to ethics in Augustine's Confessions 10 / Oliver O'Donovan -- The desire for happiness and the virtues of the will: resolving paradox in Aquinas's thought / Jean Porter -- Kant on practical and pathological love / John Hare -- Kierkegaard and Kant on the "duty to love" / M. Jamie Ferreira -- Part II. Theory -- The problematic love for God: "love the lord, all you saints" (Psalm 31:23 / Edward Collins Vacek -- Empathy, compassion, and love of neighbor / John P. Reeder Jr. -- Forgiveness in the service of love / Margaret A. Farley -- Agape as self-sacrifice: the internalist view / Edmund N. Santurri -- Eudaimonism and Christian love / Frederick V. Simmons -- Christian love as friendship: engaging the Thomistic tradition / Stephen J. Pope -- Evolution, agape, and the image of God: a reply to various naturalists / Timothy P. Jackson -- Part III. Society -- Love, justice, and law: the strange case of Watts v. Watts / M. Cathleen Kaveny -- Global health justice: love as transformative political action / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Love in the vocation of Christian sexual ethics: a theologico-political meditation / Mark D. Jordan -- Meditations on love and violence / Emilie M. Townes -- Loving nature : Christian environmental ethics / Holmes Rolston III -- The double love command and the ethics of religious pluralism / Eric Gregory -- Neighbor love in the Jewish tradition / Ronald M. Green -- Neighbor love in Muslim discourse / John Kelsay.

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