The contemporary moral climate encourages self love but deprives the individual of the resources needed to discern what it means to love oneself. Christian ethical ambivalence about self love complicates matters further. This book draws on theological accounts to assert that self love requires honesty to oneself and in acts and relationships. The arguments thereby call upon ethicists to revisit ontological accounts of the self.
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"In her thorough study, a contribution to a prestigious series, Darlene Fozard Weaver addresses a central and fairly neglected theme: the meaning and moral implications of proper self-love." Theological Studies
"This book provides very refreshing and illuminating perspective on many issues, as Weaver carefully brings out the insights of hermeneutical theories to the crowded and confused field of Christian discourse on love." Journal of Religion
"This book provides very refreshing and illuminating perspective on many issues, as Weaver carefully brings out the insights of hermeneutical theories to the crowded and confused field of Christian discourse on love." Journal of Religion
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Our contemporary moral climate urges self-realization and suggests that we determine for ourselves what sorts of acts and relations make this possible and proper. It encourages self love while depriving us of the resources needed to discern what it means to love ourselves rightly. Christian ethical ambivalence about self love complicates matters further. This book draws on theological accounts of the person to argue that right self love involves truthfulness of and to the self, embodied in one's acts and relations, under the norms of love for God and neighbor.
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right self love, contemporary moral outlook, hermeneutical account, embodied integrity, formal existential ethics, transmoral conscience, love designates, positive self love, normative anthropologies, salvific faith, unambiguous life, moral anthropology, hermeneutical reading, salvific love, explicit faith, supernatural existential, moral subjectivism, interpretive character, religious relation, fundamental option, neighbor love, moral anthropologies, enlightened selfishness, religious constructs, hermeneutical approach Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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right self love, contemporary moral outlook, hermeneutical account, embodied integrity, formal existential ethics, transmoral conscience, love designates, positive self love, normative anthropologies, salvific faith, unambiguous life, moral anthropology, hermeneutical reading, salvific love, explicit faith, supernatural existential, moral subjectivism, interpretive character, religious relation, fundamental option, neighbor love, moral anthropologies, enlightened selfishness, religious constructs, hermeneutical approach Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology, Jesus Christ, Karl Rahner, Theological Investigations, Cambridge University Press, Notre Dame, Charles Taylor, Roman Catholic, Georgetown University Press, Oxford University Press, William Schweiker, John Knox, New Being, Edward Vacek, New Haven, Paul Ricoeur, University of Chicago Press, Yale University Press, Harvard University Press, William Dych, Beverly Harrison, John Finnis, Judith Plaskow New!
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- Systematic Theology. Three Volumes in One by Paul Tillich on 23 pages
- Theological Investigations Volume X by Karl Rahner on 23 pages
- The New Being by Paul Tillich on 8 pages
- Feminism and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics) by Susan Frank Parsons on 6 pages
- Karl Rahner (Outstanding Christian Thinkers) by WIlliam V. Dych on 6 pages
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- Health Care and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics) by Robin Gill in Front Matter, page 193, and Back Matter
- Loving God With Our Minds: The Pastor As Theologian by Michael Welker on page 39
- Genetics and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics) by Celia Deane-Drummond in Front Matter
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