Friendship : A Study in Theological Ethics Hardback
by Gilbert C. Meilaender
Part of the Revisions: A Series of Books on Ethics series
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:University of Notre Dame Press
- Publication Date:30/11/1981
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- ISBN:9780268009564
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:128 pages
- Publisher:University of Notre Dame Press
- Publication Date:30/11/1981
- Category:
- ISBN:9780268009564
