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Love Disconsoled - Meditations on Christian Charity (Paperback)
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Love Disconsoled - Meditations on Christian Charity (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought
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Few concepts are more central to ethics than love, but none is more
subject to false consolation. This 1999 book explores several
theological, philosophical and literary accounts of love, focusing
on how it relates to matters such as self-interest and
self-sacrifice, and invulnerability and immortality. Timothy
Jackson first considers key aspects of what the Bible says about
love, then he further examines the meaning of love and sacrifice
through a close reading of novels by Fitzgerald and Hemingway.
Lastly, he evaluates how love constrains, and is constrained by,
other traditional moral concepts. Throughout, Jackson defends the
moral priority of what the Christian tradition calls 'agape'. He
argues that a proper understanding of agapic love rejects both
moral relativism and the comfort of believing that good people
cannot be harmed, or that God causally necessitates every
historical action and event. When love is thus disconsoled, it
neither fears death nor despises life.
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