Visions of Agapé (eBook, PDF)

Problems and Possibilities in Human and Divine Love
Redaktion: Boyd, Craig A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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? 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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351875660
• Artikelnr.: 47954972

Autorenporträt

Craig A. Boyd is a Professor of Philosophy and Director of Faith Integration at Azusa Pacific University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: perspectives on love and Agapé; The perichoretic nature of love: beyond the perfection model
Craig A. Boyd; Nature
grace and measuring Agapé: science
religion
and the 'flame of love'
Stephen G. Post; The love of God the Father: Agapé and masculinity
Ruth Groenhout; Agapé and nonviolence
Nancey Murphy; Can love be commanded? Kierkergaard's view of neighbor love
C. Stephen Evans; Agapé
brokenness and theological realism in L'Arche
Kevin S. Reimer; God's love encountering human love: psychological perspectives informing (and informed by) theology
Alan C. Tjeltveit; That than which nothing more lovely can be conceived
F. LeRon Shults; A relational God and unlimited love
Thomas Jay Oord; Index.