Agape : an ethical analysis /

This study is the most comprehensive account to date of modern treatments of the love commandment. Gene Outka examines the literature on agape from Nygren’s Agape and Eros in 1930. Both Roman Catholic and Protestant writings are considered, including those of D’Arcy, Niebuhr, Ramsey, Tillich, and ab...

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Main Author: Outka, Gene H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1972.
Series:Yale publications in religion ; 17.
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Table of Contents:
  • The content of human agape
  • Agape and self-love
  • Agape and justice
  • Agape and subsidiary rules
  • Agape as a virtue of the agent
  • The status and justification of human agape
  • Karl Barth on agape
  • A revisit.