A theology of love / Werner G. Jeanrond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeanrond, Werner G., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Love.

Physical Description:

xiv, 292 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T & T Clark, [2010]

Summary:

This book explores the different dimensions of Christian love. It argues that all expressions of love are wrestling with the challenge of otherness and hence with the experience of transcendence A major new work by a major and world renowned theologian The first comprehensive theology of love to appear in decades. This book explores the different dimensions of Christian love. It argues that all expressions of love are wrestling with the challenge of otherness and hence with the experience of transcendence. The development of Christian concepts of love is discussed with particular reference to the different horizons and the variety of approaches to love in the Bible, Augustine, medieval theology, Protestant agape theology, Catholic approaches to desire, and contemporary philosophy and sociology. The discussion of the rich and often problematic heritage of expressions of personal, communal and religious love enables this study to develop a critical and constructive theology of Christian love for our time. This book demonstrates the diversity in the Christian tradition of love and thus offers a critical perspective on previous and present impositions of homogenous concepts of love. The book invited the reader to an in-depth examination of the potential of Christan love and its particular institutions of the development of personal and communal forms of Christian discipleship. The traditional separation between agape love and eroticism is overcome in favour of an integrated model of love that acknowledges both God's gift of love and the potential of every woman, man and child to contribute to the transformed praxis of love in church and society. Book jacket.

Contents:

Horizons of love

Biblical challenges to a theology of love

Augustine's theology of God's love

Rediscovering the loving subject

Love as agape

The unity of love and desire

Institutions of love

The politics of love

The love of God.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780567130372

0567130371

9780567646927

0567646920

OCLC:

432982989