Visions of Agapé
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agapic
Agapic Love
Altruistic Love
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Common Watermark
Core Members
creative
Creaturely Existence
divine
divine command theory
Divine Love
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feminist theology
god
God's Influence
God's Love
God’s Influence
God’s Love
Gracious Affections
Hendrikus Berkhof
human
Human Love
interdisciplinary study of love
love
Love Abide
loves
Masculine Language
Michelangelo Phenomenon
moral psychology
Mutual Abiding
neighbor
Neighbor Love
Partner Affirmation
Perceptual Affirmation
Psychological Sciences
sanctification process
social science perspectives
stephen
Stephen Post
theological ethics
Theological Psychology
Theological Realism
Thomas Jay Oord
Trinitarian Life
unlimited
Unlimited Love
Product details
- ISBN 9780754658184
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book brings together philosophical and theological perspectives on agapistic love. The aim of the text is to illuminate the nature of unlimited love by distinct and integrative approaches to the intersection of the divine and the human. Various scientific approaches to human forms of love seem to shed light on our nature as social beings. But to what extent are the natural desires for affection, sexual love and friendship augmented, revised, perfected or replaced by the gift of grace? In other words, we can ask how is it that agapé modifies or shapes the natural loves? Diverse theological and moral traditions address the question in quite startling contrast. Thomists follow the dictum that 'Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it'. Lutherans draw a sharp contrast between law and Gospel while Wesleyans see charity as the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit. Some feminist theorists see the idea of self-giving love as contrary to genuine self-fulfilment while the neo-Kantians see love as a duty to others, and some Kierkegaardians see the command to love as an unusual manifestation of divine command ethics. These diverse approaches, in light of contemporary research in the natural and social sciences, can provide fertile ground for the exploration of the intersection of human and divine love. To date, there is no text available that brings scholars from various theological and philosophical backgrounds together to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue on this important and much neglected aspect of research into the human and divine loves. This book offers a significant attempt to remedy the situation.
Craig A. Boyd is a Professor of Philosophy and Director of Faith Integration at Azusa Pacific University, USA.
