Faith, Hope, and Love

The Theological Virtues and Their Opposites

AvTroy DuJardin,M. David Eckel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

The volume includes contributions not just from philosophers of religion, but also from psychologists, sociologists, and film and literature scholars, to paint a complex and nuanced picture of these virtues, both of how we might understand them, and how we can hope to embody them ourselves.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-07-24
Mått:155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:559 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life
Antal sidor:252
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030950613

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Troy DuJardin earned his Ph.D in the Boston University Graduate Program in Religion, and served as Assistant Director of the Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion from 2015 to 2020. He has also served as a writing fellow in the Boston University Core Curriculum, a teaching fellow in religious studies, and an instructor in philosophy.M. David Eckel is Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Religion at Boston University. He has received the Metcalf Award for Teaching Excellence (1998), and has served as Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Humanities (2002-5), as well as Assistant Dean and Director of the Core Curriculum. He also has served on the Visiting Committee of Harvard Divinity School.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Virtue and Vice.- I: Faith and Doubt.- 2. Faith (and Doubt?) Among the Virtues.- 3. Restoring Faith, Curing Doubt: Krsna’s Instruction in the Bhagavad Gita.- 4. Faith, Doubt, and the Buddhist Path of Enlightenment.- 5. Kierkegaard on Faith, Doubt, and Uncertainty.- 6. Wilfred Cantwell Smith: Scholar, Mentor, and Humanist.- II: Hope and Despair.- 7. Dante’s Commedia: from Despair to Hope to Glory.- 8. Radical Hope, Despair and Time: Responses to Nietzsche.- 9. Hope but not Optimism: The Kantian Mind at the End of All Things.- III: Love and Hate.- 10. How to ‘Love Thy Neighbor’: Lessons from G.W.F. Hegel on Conflict and Reconciliation.- 11. Making Lovers: Emmanuel Levinas and Iris Murdoch on Moral Formation.- 12. Empathy and its Critics.- 13. What Muslim Scholars Talk About When They Talk About Love.- 14. Bhakti and Accidental Grace: Hate as Love in the Hindu Tradition.- 15. Obedience and Love in Christian Ethics.- 16. The Happiness of Promise: Ferdinand Holler andAlexander Nehamas on Love and Care.