The Pain in the Gift and the Gift in the Pain
If we are searching, over the past half-century or so, for the finest articulation of the Augustinian vision of God as the One who satisfies the deepest desire of our heart by way of uprooting desires that more often than not feel like our deepest desires, we would do well to sit at the feet of Gilb...
| Published in: | Studies in Christian ethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2017]
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Studies in Christian ethics
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| RelBib Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBE Anthropology NCB Personal ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Augustine
B Christians B Eudaimonism B Consciousness B Desire B Grace B Gilbert Meilaender B Bioethics B Oikeiosis B Meilaender, Gilbert B Augustinians B Stoicism |
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| Summary: | If we are searching, over the past half-century or so, for the finest articulation of the Augustinian vision of God as the One who satisfies the deepest desire of our heart by way of uprooting desires that more often than not feel like our deepest desires, we would do well to sit at the feet of Gilbert Meilaender. Meilaender rightly suggests that it is only when we see as God does that we can fully recognize what in our created and/or fallen nature is in need of transformation. That said, even where God is not known as the deepest desire of the heart, happiness can be grasped as coming by way of the painful upending of desires. This is what eudaemonist virtue ethics should lead us to expect, even if it is not Christian—as this article seeks to illustrate by way of reflection on ancient Stoic oikeiosis on the one hand, and modern ecological consciousness on the other. |
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| ISSN: | 0953-9468 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Friendly Rejoinders (2017)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0953946816684440 |