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This book explores the way in which the study and practice of love
creates a common ground for different faiths and different
traditions within the same faith. For the contributors, "common
ground" in this context is not a minimal core of belief or a lowest
common denominator of faith, but a space or area in which to live
together, consider together the meaning of the love to which
various faiths witness, and work together to enable human
flourishing. Such a space, the contributors believe, is possible
because it is the place of encounter with the divine. This book is
the fruit of a Project for the Study of Love in Religion which aims
to create this space in which different traditions of love
converge, from Islam, Judaism, and the Christianity of both East
and West. Tools employed by the contributors in exploring this
space of love include exegesis of ancient texts, theology, accounts
of mystical experience, philosophy, and evolutionary science of the
human. Insights about human and divine love that emerge include its
nature as a form of knowing, its sacrificial and erotic dimensions,
its inclination towards beauty, its making of community and its
importance for a just political and economic life.
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