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Tag: Christian love
For the Joy Set Before Us:
Augustine and Self-Denying Love
Age-old debates over self-love and self-denial continue in the Christian community. Many regard self-love as incompatible with the self-sacrifice of Christ. Others, especially feminists and liberation theologians, contest the notion that self-sacrifice is the test of authentic Christian love. The resolution to this dilemma, argues Gerald Schlabach, lies with St. Augustine. In this engaging book,…
“Love is the hand of the soul”
The grammar of continence in Augustine’s doctrine of Christian love First presented at the North American Patristics Society. June 1, 1996. The full version is available in the Journal of Early Christian Studies 6:1 (Spring 1998): 59-92. The Grammar of Grasping The Grammar of Clinging Having by Not Having Conclusion Notes In recent years scholars have…
Guy F. Hershberger and Reinhold Niebuhr on Christian love
Will the Real Augustinian Please Stand Up? Conference on “Anabaptists in Conversation: Mennonite and Brethren Interactions with Twentieth-Century Theologies,” 19-21 June 1997. Young Center for the Study of Anabaptist and Pietist Groups, Elizabethtown (Pa.) College. Agapeism and Hershberger Niebuhr and Augustine Sacrificial and Mutual Love Could Mennonite Theology Be Augustinian? Notes Agapeism and Hershberger In…
Dissertation
For the Joy Set Before Us: Ethics of Self-Denying Love in Augustinian Perspective Jean Porter, Director Department of Theology University of Notre Dame April 1996 Abstract Table of contents Defense presentation Appendix on Anders Nygren Order dissertation, # 96-21773 from UMI Published by U of Notre Dame Press Dissertation copyright © 1996 by Gerald W….