Love Disconsoled: Meditations on Christian Charity

by Timothy P. Jackson

Book Overview

Few concepts are more central to ethics than love, but none is more subject to varying interpretation. This book explores several theological, philosophical, and literary accounts of love, focusing on how it relates to matters such as freedom and duty. Timothy Jackson also examines two concepts that are fundamental to Biblical ethical discourse--abomination and liberation--and relates these extremes to love, freedom and duty. Throughout this book...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521158788
• ISBN13: 9780521158787
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"