TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jackson,Timothy P.
TI  - The Priority of Love: Christian Charity and Social Justice 
T2  - New Forum Books
SN  - 9781400832514
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Religious
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Good Samaritan
KW  - Hindus
KW  - Judaism
KW  - abortion
KW  - agape: as a metavalue
KW  - altruism
KW  - anger
KW  - anorexia
KW  - anti-essentialism
KW  - autonomy, the autonomous
KW  - benevolence, the benevolent
KW  - bestowal (of worth)
KW  - body
KW  - certainty, certitude
KW  - compassion
KW  - cooperation
KW  - covenant, the covenantal
KW  - crucifixion
KW  - despair
KW  - dignity
KW  - dread, the dreadful
KW  - empathy
KW  - eternity, the eternal
KW  - ethic of manageability
KW  - evolution
KW  - fallibility, fallibilism
KW  - freedom, the free
KW  - gender, gender relations
KW  - humility
KW  - immortality
KW  - infanticide
KW  - intolerance
KW  - invulnerability
KW  - liberty
KW  - liberum arbitrium
KW  - martyrdom
KW  - misanthropy
KW  - monotheism
KW  - mortality
KW  - mutuality
KW  - nonresistance
KW  - obedience
KW  - pacifism
KW  - punishment
KW  - reconciliation
KW  - reverence
KW  - salvation
KW  - suffering
KW  - tenderness
KW  - terrorism, terrorists
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; INTRODUCTION The Fate of Charity --; CHAPTER ONE Christlike Love and Reciprocal Justice --; CHAPTER TWO Is God Just? --; CHAPTER THREE Christian Love and Political Violence --; CHAPTER FOUR Forgiveness as an Eternal Work of Love --; CHAPTER FIVE Abortion and an Ethic of Care --; Name Index --; Subject Index --; NEW FORUM BOOKS; restricted access
N2  - This book explores the relation between agape (or Christian charity) and social justice. Timothy Jackson defines agape as the central virtue in Christian ethical thought and action and applies his insights to three concrete issues: political violence, forgiveness, and abortion. Taking his primary cue from the New Testament while drawing extensively from contemporary theology and philosophy, Jackson identifies three features of Christian charity: unconditional commitment to the good of others, equal regard for others' well-being, and passionate service open to self-sacrifice for the sake of others.Charity, prescribed by Jesus for his disciples and named by Saint Paul as the "greatest" theological virtue, is contrasted with various accounts of justice. Jackson argues that agape is not trumped by justice or other goods. Rather, agape precedes justice: without the work of love, society would not produce persons capable of merit, demerit, and contract, the elements of most modern conceptions of justice. Jackson then considers the implications of his ideas for several questions: the nature of God, the relation between Christian love and political violence, the place of forgiveness, and the morality of abortion. Arguing that agapic love is to be construed as a gift of grace as well as a divine commandment, Jackson concludes that love is the "eternal life" that makes temporal existence possible and thus the "first" Christian virtue. Though foremost a contribution to Christian ethics, Jackson's arguments and the issues he takes up will find a broader readership
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