The death of a friend is a source of pain and grief for anyone. For
David B. Burrell, it is also a source of reflection on the role of
friendship in our ongoing pursuit of truth. In this small but
penetrating book, Burrell offers five essays that explore
friendship as the bond that links us to the religious traditions we
embrace in our search for truth. Known for his many and lasting
contributions to philosophical theology, Burrell here makes a
definitive statement for that field while also continuing the
cross-cultural discussion among Christians, Muslims, and Jews.
Burrell considers how friendship can be constitutive of the
spiritual exercises one employs to seek truth, and he examines the
influences on his thinking of Bernard Lonergan, Stanley Hauerwas,
and Augustine to show how friends can open our minds and hearts to
interfaith dialogue and the mutual illumination it offers. He also
explores cross-cultural understanding through a comparison of the
teaching of Aquinas with that of Islam's al-Ghazali, suggesting
that their complementary perspectives can fruitfully expand our
view of friendship to include our relationship with God. In the
end, he offers a model of friendship as a relationship which gives
us the courage to maintain our philosophical pursuits and which
helps us to persevere in the face of the radical unknowing which
characterizes philosophical theology.
Just as Burrell learns from death that friendship cannot end, he
celebrates how each of us can present to another the face of the
good as we journey together through life. And just as our journey
toward the truth continues forever, he enables us to see that the
gift of friendship is not limited to our earthlyexistence.
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