Author : Alan Jacobs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0429971141
If the whole of the Christian life is to be governed by the "law of love"—the twofold love of God and one's neighbor—what might it mean to read lovingly? That is the question that drives this unique book. Through theological reflection interspersed with readings of literary texts (Shakespeare and Cervantes, Nabokov and Nicholson Baker, George Eliot and W. H. Auden and Dickens), Jacobs pursues an elusive quarry: the charitable reader.
Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0802872948
Author : Joshua Neoh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,96 MB
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108427650
Moving from monasticism to constitutionalism, and from antinomianism to anarchism, this book reveals law's connection with love and freedom.
Author : John Goldingay
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830873627
How might we learn ethics from the Old Testament? Trusted guide John Goldingay urges us to let the Old Testament itself set the agenda. Topically organized with short, stand-alone chapters, this volume takes readers through the Old Testament's teaching about relationships, work, Sabbath, character, and more, featuring Goldingay's own translation and discussion questions for group use.
Author : Robert F. Cochran, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 1316812960
In a provocative essay, philosopher Jeffrie G. Murphy asks: 'what would law be like if we organized it around the value of Christian love, and if we thought about and criticized law in terms of that value?'. This book brings together leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to address that question. Scholars have given surprisingly little attention to assessing how the central Christian ethical category of love - agape - might impact the way we understand law. This book aims to fill that gap by investigating the relationship between agape and law in Scripture, theology, and jurisprudence, as well as applying these insights to contemporary debates in criminal law, tort law, elder law, immigration law, corporate law, intellectual property, and international relations. At a time when the discourse between Christian and other world views is more likely to be filled with hate than love, the implications of agape for law are crucial.
Author : Z. Bankowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9401720991
The aim of this book is to explore what it means to live a life under the law. Does a life of law preclude love and does a life of love preclude law? Part of the theme of the book is that social questions also raise individual moral and ethical questions; that to live lawfully implies both a question of how I should live in my relations with my fellows and how society should be organised. These questions must be looked at together. The book explores these questions and in looking at the articulation of law and love touches upon debates in personal morality, aesthetics, epistemology, social and political organisation, institutional design and the form and substance of law. It raises questions that are of interest to students and those working in law, theology, and social and political theory.
Author : Leonard, Richard, SJ
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1587689332
Meditations on the sources of formation in Christian approach to law, its application to contemporary living, and how our approach to the law should set us free, not bind us up. A positive contribution to the present and lively debate about the tension between Christian liberty and obedience.
Author : Herbert McCabe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826472984
What is ethics all about? In this book Herbert McCabe suggests that it is about loving, obeying laws and talking to people. In doing so, he offers an introduction to ethical thinking for anyone with a serious interest in moral philosophy. He does so as someone who writes with a Christian audience in mind. Most of his arguments, however, do not presuppose a believing Christian readership.
Author : Todd Breyfogle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1501314041
Reading Augustine presents concise, personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. Todd Breyfogle's On Creativity, Liberty, Love and the Beauty of the Law introduces readers to Augustine's understanding of law as an arena in which the possibilities of creative freedom are reconciled with the needs of natural and civil order. It places Augustine's conception of law in the broader mosaic of his ideas about how human beings are bound together individually, socially, and spiritually. Seasoned readers of Augustine will see this fundamental element of his thought in a different light, even as those less familiar with Augustine are introduced to the thrill of following how he makes sense of the complexities of nature, history, and the human spirit.
Author : Yochanan Muffs
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674539327
Studying the interplay of figurative language, law, and religious thought, Yochanan Muffs brings us a new understanding of both the Bible and ancient Near Eastern cultures. This first single-volume collection of the pivotal writings of this great religious humanist includes his studies of love and joy as metaphors, the laws of war in ancient Israel, the figurative nature of legal language, the role of the prophet and prophetic speech, and the expressions of belonging which united a culture.
