Why there is no obligation to love God
The first and greatest commandment according to Jesus, and so the one most central to Christian practice, is the command to love God. We argue that this commandment is best interpreted in aretaic rather than deontic terms. In brief, we argue that there is no obligation to love God. While bad, failur...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2024
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Religious studies
Year: 2024, Volume: 60, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-88 |
Further subjects: | B
obligations and rights
B enforceable claims B Relations of intimacy B LOVE of God B the suberogatory B Autonomy B Hell |
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