The Purpose of Neighbor-Love
This essay takes up the question of what "agape" intends for the neighbor. Though material welfare and freedom have been adequately emphasized in recent Christian ethics, the God-relation has not. Drawing on T. S. Eliot, Abraham Heschel, Kenneth E. Kirk, and Max Scheler in particular, the...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1990
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Journal of religious ethics
Année: 1990, Volume: 18, Numéro: 1, Pages: 181-193 |
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Résumé: | This essay takes up the question of what "agape" intends for the neighbor. Though material welfare and freedom have been adequately emphasized in recent Christian ethics, the God-relation has not. Drawing on T. S. Eliot, Abraham Heschel, Kenneth E. Kirk, and Max Scheler in particular, the case is made for a retrieval of the Augustinian assumption that the service of the most lasting significance for the neighbor is the restoration of the divine-human encounter that issues in true happiness. Criticism is directed at efforts to understand "agape" within the limiting terms of modern secular frameworks. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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