Love and Christian Ethics: Tradition, Theory, and Society

by Frederick V. Simmons (Editor), Brian C. Sorrells (With), Thomas W. Ogletree (Contribution by), Terence Irwin (Contribution by), Oliver O'Donovan (Contribution by)

Overview

In Love and Christian Ethics, leading scholars analyze and assess the meaning of love from a wide range of perspectives. These experts in the field bring a richness of thought and experience to deliver unprecedentedly broad yet rigorous analysis of this central tenet of Christian ethics and faith.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626163676
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
Publication date:	12/15/2016
Series:	Moral Traditions series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Frederick V. Simmons is the J. Houston Witherspoon Fellow in Theology and the Natural Sciences at the Center of Theological Inquiry. Previously an assistant professor of ethics at Yale Divinity School, he has also taught at Amherst College, La Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, and La Universidad Politécnica Salesiana. Brian C. Sorrells has taught courses on Christian ethics, world religions, human rights, biomedical ethics, and sexual ethics at Yale Divinity School, Harvard Divinity School, Brown University, and Amherst College.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Conjunctive Approach to Christian LoveFrederick V. Simmons Part I: Tradition 1. Interpreting the Love Commands in Social Context: Deuteronomy and Jesus’s Sermon on the MountThomas W. Ogletree2. Conceptions of Love, Greek and ChristianTerence Irwin3. “Repellent Text”: The Transition from Wisdom to Ethics in Augustine’s Confessions 10Oliver O’Donovan4. The Desire for Happiness and the Virtues of the Will: Resolving a Paradox in Aquinas’s ThoughtJean Porter5. Kant on Practical and Pathological LoveJohn Hare6. Kierkegaard and Kant on the "Duty to Love”M. Jamie Ferreira Part II: Theory 7. The Problematic Love for God: “Love the Lord, All You Saints” (Psalm 31:23)Edward Collins Vacek8. Empathy, Compassion, and Love of NeighborJohn P. Reeder Jr.9. Forgiveness in the Service of Love Margaret A. Farley10. Agape as Self-Sacrifice: The Internalist ViewEdmund N. Santurri11. Eudaimonism and Christian LoveFrederick V. Simmons12. Christian Love as Friendship: Engaging the Thomistic TraditionStephen J. Pope13. Evolution, Agape, and the Image of God: A Reply to Various Naturalists Timothy P. Jackson Part III: Society 14. Love, Justice, and Law: The Strange Case of Watts v. WattsM. Cathleen Kaveny15. Global Health Justice: Love as Transformative Political ActionLisa Sowle Cahill16. Love in the Vocation of Christian Sexual Ethics: A Theologico-Political MeditationMark D. Jordan17. Meditations on Love and ViolenceEmilie M. Townes18. Loving Nature: Christian Environmental EthicsHolmes Rolston III19. The Double Love Command and the Ethics of Religious PluarlismEric Gregory20. Neighbor Love in the Jewish TraditionRonald M. Green21. Neighbor Love in Muslim Discourse John Kelsay Afterword William Werpehowski

What People are Saying About This

Jennifer A. Herdt

Amidst the wealth of reflection on Christian love spawned by Anders Nygren’s provocative Agape and Eros, Gene Outka’s Agape still stands out for its conceptual rigor and insight. Love and Christian Ethics, in weaving together new studies on love by a highly distinguished set of authors, ably furthers, and thereby honors, Outka’s legacy.

Robin W. Lovin

Simmons and Sorrells have given us a superb collection in Christian theology and ethics. Love and Christian Ethics includes contributions by many of today’s leading thinkers, and the essays are intelligently organized from reflections on Biblical texts to contemporary interreligious dialogues. This is a landmark volume for students and scholars that will be a standard reference for years to come.

Editorial Reviews

will undoubtedly become a reference for anyone in North America who wants to engage in dialogue with significant scholars in the field of Christian ethics.

Touchstone

Amidst the wealth of reflection on Christian love spawned by Anders Nygren’s provocative Agape and Eros, Gene Outka’s Agape still stands out for its conceptual rigor and insight. Love and Christian Ethics, in weaving together new studies on love by a highly distinguished set of authors, ably furthers, and thereby honors, Outka’s legacy.

Jennifer A. Herdt

Simmons and Sorrells have given us a superb collection in Christian theology and ethics. Love and Christian Ethics includes contributions by many of today’s leading thinkers, and the essays are intelligently organized from reflections on Biblical texts to contemporary interreligious dialogues. This is a landmark volume for students and scholars that will be a standard reference for years to come.

Robin W. Lovin

It not only lives up to its ambitions but also makes such an immediate contribution to the field that it might serve as the standard text on this topic for the foreseeable future. . . . The volume will be a welcome addition to anyone's shelf.

Political Theology

Thoughtful essays that invite readers to rethink some fairly settled positions in Christian love ethics . . . The volume is certainly a useful stimulant to thinking about Christian love and deserves attention.

Studies in Christian Ethics

"Simmons and Sorrells have given us a superb collection in Christian theology and ethics. Love and Christian Ethics includes contributions by many of today's leading thinkers, and the essays are intelligently organized from reflections on Biblical texts to contemporary interreligious dialogues. This is a landmark volume for students and scholars that will be a standard reference for years to come." — Robin W. Lovin, Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics Emeritus, Southern Methodist University, Center of Theological Inquiry

"Amidst the wealth of reflection on Christian love spawned by Anders Nygren's provocative Agape and Eros, Gene Outka's Agape still stands out for its conceptual rigor and insight. Love and Christian Ethics, in weaving together new studies on love by a highly distinguished set of authors, ably furthers, and thereby honors, Outka's legacy." — Jennifer A. Herdt, Yale University Divinity School

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