Selfless love and human flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch [electronic resource] / Julia T. Meszaros.

Selfless love and human flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch [electronic resource] / Julia T. Meszaros.

9780191820502 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource (227 pages).

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198765868 doi

BJ1474 .M45 2016eb

128.46

In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, 'selfless love' often appears as a threat to the lover's personal well-being. Such a perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it. It therefore calls for a theological response. In conversation with the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich and the atheistic moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, this book enquires into the anthropological grounds on which selfless love can be said to build up the lover's self.

In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, 'selfless love' often appears as a threat to the lover's personal well-being. Such a perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it. It therefore calls for a theological response. In conversation with the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich and the atheistic moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, this book enquires into the anthropological grounds on which selfless love can be said to build up the lover's self.

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