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Love Disconsoled

Meditations on Christian Charity

by Timothy P. Jackson

  • Hardback
  • 272 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 23.5 x 2 cm

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Few concepts are more central to ethics than love, but none is more subject to false consolation. This book explores several theological, philosophical, and literary accounts of love, focusing on how it relates to matters such as self-interest and self-sacrifice, and invulnerability and immortality. Timothy Jackson first considers key aspects of what the Bible says about love, then he further examines the meaning of love and sacrifice through a close reading of novels by Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Lastly, he evaluates how love constrains, and is constrained by, other traditional moral concepts. Throughout, Jackson defends the moral priority of what the Christian tradition calls 'agape'. He argues that a proper understanding of agapic love rejects both moral relativism and the comfort of believing that good people cannot be harmed, or that God causally necessitates every historical action and event. When love is thus disconsoled, it neither fears death nor despises life.
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  • Author

    Timothy P. Jackson

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    November 1999

  • Weight

    568g

  • Page Count

    272

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 23.5 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521554930

  • ISBN-10

    0521554934

  • Eden Code

    1151608

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