Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch

by Julia T. Meszaros

In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, "selfless love" can appear as a threat to the lover's personal well-being. This perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it and therefore calls for a theological response. In conversation with the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich and the atheistic moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019876586X
• ISBN13: 9780198765868
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"