Certain relationships are of profound importance for the moral
life. Gilbert C. Meilaender explores some of the tensions which
Christian experience discovers in one such relationship, the bond
of friendship. These tensions help to explain why friendship was a
more important topic in the life and thought of the classical
civilizations of Greece and Rome than it has unusually been within
Christendom. The bond of friendship (philia) involves special
preference; Christian love (agape) is thought to be like the love
of the heavenly Father who makes his sun rise on the evil and the
good and sends rain on the just and the unjust. Philia requires
that love be returned; agape is to be shown even the enemy, who
does not love in return. Friendships sometimes fade away;
Christians are enjoined to be faithful in love. These tensions have
permeated our lives and helped to shape our world. We think
politics a more important sphere than the private friendship bond.
We seek fulfillment in and identify ourselves with our vocations -
by which we now mean, work for pay - not our friendships. And in a
world where politics and vocation are all-important, lasting
friendships become more difficult to sustain. Friendship examines
the tension between philia and agape and probes its significance
for Christian thought and experience.
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