Justice in Love
An eminent Christian philosopher's take on justice, rights, wrongs -- and what love has to do with it all

Love and justice have long been prominent themes in the moral culture of the West, yet they are often considered to be almost hopelessly at odds with one another. In this book acclaimed Christian philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff shows that justice and love are at heart perfectly compatible, and he argues that the commonly perceived tension between them reveals something faulty in our understanding of each. True benevolent love, he says, is always attentive to justice, and love that wreaks injustice can only ever be "malformed love."

Wolterstorff's Justice in Love is a welcome companion and follow-up volume to his magnificentJustice: Rights and Wrongs (Princeton, 2010). Building upon his expansive discussion of justice in that earlier work and charitably engaging alternative views, this book focuses in profound new ways on the complex yet ultimately harmonious relation between justice and love.
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Justice in Love
An eminent Christian philosopher's take on justice, rights, wrongs -- and what love has to do with it all

Love and justice have long been prominent themes in the moral culture of the West, yet they are often considered to be almost hopelessly at odds with one another. In this book acclaimed Christian philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff shows that justice and love are at heart perfectly compatible, and he argues that the commonly perceived tension between them reveals something faulty in our understanding of each. True benevolent love, he says, is always attentive to justice, and love that wreaks injustice can only ever be "malformed love."

Wolterstorff's Justice in Love is a welcome companion and follow-up volume to his magnificentJustice: Rights and Wrongs (Princeton, 2010). Building upon his expansive discussion of justice in that earlier work and charitably engaging alternative views, this book focuses in profound new ways on the complex yet ultimately harmonious relation between justice and love.
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Justice in Love

Justice in Love

by Nicholas Wolterstorff
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Justice in Love

by Nicholas Wolterstorff

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An eminent Christian philosopher's take on justice, rights, wrongs -- and what love has to do with it all

Love and justice have long been prominent themes in the moral culture of the West, yet they are often considered to be almost hopelessly at odds with one another. In this book acclaimed Christian philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff shows that justice and love are at heart perfectly compatible, and he argues that the commonly perceived tension between them reveals something faulty in our understanding of each. True benevolent love, he says, is always attentive to justice, and love that wreaks injustice can only ever be "malformed love."

Wolterstorff's Justice in Love is a welcome companion and follow-up volume to his magnificentJustice: Rights and Wrongs (Princeton, 2010). Building upon his expansive discussion of justice in that earlier work and charitably engaging alternative views, this book focuses in profound new ways on the complex yet ultimately harmonious relation between justice and love.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781467434706
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date: 05/03/2011
Series: Emory University Studies in Law and Religion (EUSLR)
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 303
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

 Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University. Before going to Yale he taught philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for thirty years. His other books include Justice in Love, Educating for Shalom, The God We Worship, and Lament for a Son.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

Part 1 Benevolence-Agapism

Chapter 2 Modern Day Agapism 21

Chapter 3 Classical Modern Day Agapism on the Relation of Love to Justice 41

Chapter 4 Irony and Impossibility in Classical Modern Day Agapism 50

Chapter 5 Niebuhr's Non-Classical Agapism 62

Part 2 Care-Agapism

Chapter 6 Justice as Love 75

Chapter 7 What Is Justice? 85

Chapter 8 Beginning to Rethink Love 93

Chapter 9 Love as Care 101

Chapter 10 Do Motivations Matter? 110

Chapter 11 Rules of Application for Care 119

Chapter 12 Correcting Two Impressions 134

Chapter 13 Is Care-Agapism Too Easy? 139

Chapter 14 Love, Justice, and the Good 142

Part 3 Just and Unjust Love

Chapter 15 What Is Forgiveness? 161

Chapter 16 How the Recognition of Forgiveness Came about and What's Its Point? 178

Chapter 17 Does Forgiveness Violate Justice? 191

Chapter 18 Just and Unjust Generosity 207

Chapter 19 Just and Unjust Paternalism 221

Part 4 The Justice of God's Love

Chapter 20 The Justice of God's Generosity in Romans 243

Chapter 21 What Is Justification and Is It Just? 257

Index 283

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