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Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics (REVISIONS)
Gilbert Meilaender
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Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 181.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268009694
SKU
V9780268009694
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About Gilbert Meilaender
Gilbert Meilaender holds the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University, Indiana. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Christian Ethics, as an Associate Editor of Religious Studies Review, and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics. He is also a Fellow of the Hastings Center and was ... Read more
Reviews for Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics (REVISIONS)
“Provocative . . . Meilaender makes use of some of the best pagan and Christian reflection on friendship in order to illustrate the persistent tensions between philia and agape.” —Journal of Religion “A worthy juxtaposition of ancient and modern ideas about both friendship and Christian love.” —Ethics “A welcome addition to the literature of theological ethics.” —Theological Studies “Creative and ... Read more