Love Disconsoled
Meditations on Christian Charity
Part of Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought
- Author: Timothy P. Jackson, Emory University, Atlanta
- Date Published: July 2011
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- isbn: 9780521158787
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Few concepts are more central to ethics than love, but none is more subject to false consolation. This 1999 book explores several theological, philosophical and literary accounts of love, focusing on how it relates to matters such as self-interest and self-sacrifice, and invulnerability and immortality. Timothy Jackson first considers key aspects of what the Bible says about love, then he further examines the meaning of love and sacrifice through a close reading of novels by Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Lastly, he evaluates how love constrains, and is constrained by, other traditional moral concepts. Throughout, Jackson defends the moral priority of what the Christian tradition calls 'agape'. He argues that a proper understanding of agapic love rejects both moral relativism and the comfort of believing that good people cannot be harmed, or that God causally necessitates every historical action and event. When love is thus disconsoled, it neither fears death nor despises life.
Read more- Focuses on the meaning of Christian love, one of the most fundamental concepts of ethics
- Explores theological, literary and philosophical accounts of love, sacrifice and charity
- Examines how love constrains, and is constrained by, other traditional moral concepts such as freedom, duty and liberation
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- Date Published: July 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521158787
- length: 270 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
Preface
1. Biblical keys to love
2. Back to the garden or into the night
3. The five loves
4. Love, abomination and liberation
5. The disconsolation of love
6. Is Isaac our neighbour?
7. Love on the cross
Bibliography
Indices.
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