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Model of Love: A Study in Philosophical Theology Paperback – 21 August 2008
by
Vincent Br¿mmer
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Religious believers understand the meaning of their lives and of the world in terms of the way these are related to God. The conceptual models whereby this relationship is described therefore play a key role in the conceptual designs which theologians produce to express the faith of the community of believers. Vincent Brümmer examines the implications of using the model of love in this context and looks at a number of the most significant views of the nature of love: exclusive attention (Ortega y Gasset), ecstatic union (nuptial mysticism), passionate suffering (courtly love), need-love (Plato, Augustine), and gift-love (Nygren). All these views are shown to interpret love as an attitude rather than as a relation between persons. In the final chapters a relational concept of love is developed, and it is shown how all the various attitudes discussed in the previous chapters have a role to play. Finally, the implications are addressed of using the model of love as a key model in theology.
- Print length264 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date21 August 2008
- Dimensions13.97 x 1.68 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-10052144909X
- ISBN-13978-0521449090
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"Vincent BrU mmer's The Model of Love is a rewarding text which not only provides a clear and cogent discussion of theology as metaphorical language and systematic theology as a critical effort to develop an encompassing conceptual model but makes a persuasive case for BrU mmer's own key model, an understanding of love as a relation of fellowship between autonomous persons who freely choose to identify the interests or good of the other as their own good....BrU mmer's narrative is straight-forward and his language remains accessible despite his refusal to oversimplify complex philosophical issues. The book is both readable and rewarding to the reader. I highly recommend it." The Journal of Religion
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A senior theologian discusses the implications of using the model of love as a key model in theology.
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- Publisher : Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (21 August 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 264 pages
- ISBN-10 : 052144909X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0521449090
- Dimensions : 13.97 x 1.68 x 21.59 cm
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This is highly recommendable!! Having various contents is good and also book's quality is very well!!! I want to recomend this book for others who are interested in philosophical theology!

Jerry L. Martin
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a careful, thoughtful approach to theology through models of love
Reviewed in the United States on 14 September 2009Verified Purchase
Love can be a very soft and vague topic, lending itself more to flights of poetic fancy than to careful analysis. In this book, various Christian theological visions are explicated in terms of the particular model they offer of love. This is a book that is clear, serious, intelligent, and insightful. It is hard to imagine this particular project being done better.
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