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The Model of Love: Study in Philosophical Theology

A Study in Philosophical Theology

  • Paperback
  • 264 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 13.9 x 20.8 x 1.8 cm

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Religious believers understand the meaning of their lives and of the world in terms of the way these are related to God. The conceptual models whereby this relationship is described therefore play a key role in the conceptual designs which theologians produce to express the faith of the community of believers. Vincent Brummer examines the implications of using the model of love in this context and looks at a number of the most significant views of the nature of love: exclusive attention (Ortega y Gasset), ecstatic union (nuptial mysticism), passionate suffering (courtly love), need-love (Plato, Augustine), and gift-love (Nygren). All these views are shown to interpret love as an attitude rather than as a relation between persons. In the final chapters a relational concept of love is developed, and it is shown how all the various attitudes discussed in the previous chapters have a role to play. Finally, the implications are addressed of using the model of love as a key model in theology.
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  • Author

    Vincent Brummer

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    September 1993

  • Additional Information

    xii, 249 p. ;

  • Weight

    341g

  • Page Count

    264

  • Dimensions

    13.9 x 20.8 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521449090

  • ISBN-10

    052144909X

  • Eden Code

    11705

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