Love was at one time a powerfully unifying force among
Christians. In his letters, Paul consistently evokes charity as the
avenue to both human and divine communion. If the magnitude of
charity was of the upmost importance to early Christians, so were
those sins that aimed to distract Christians from acting based on
love. Taking seriously the efforts of Paul, and later Thomas
Aquinas, to expose and root out the sins against charity, Matthew
Levering reclaims the centrality of love for moral, and in fact
all, theology.As Levering argues, the practice of charity leads to
inner joy and peace as well as outward mercy, good will, and unity
with God and neighbor. The sins against charity--hatred, sloth,
envy, discord and contention, schism, war and strife, and sedition
and scandal--threaten love's concrete effects by rebelling against
dependence on God and undermining interdependence on others. The
Betrayal of Charity seriously considers the consequences of each of
the sins against love, compelling individuals and communities to
recognize their own loss of charity. In doing so, Levering fosters
a spirit of restoration and reminds readers that love--not the sins
against it--will have the last word.
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