God and the Problems of Love
God and the Problems of Love
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Author(s): Clark, Kelly James
ISBN No.: 9781009269155
Pages: 75
Year: 202312
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 32.12
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Religious believers are often commanded to love like God. On classical accounts, God seems a poor model for human beings: an immutable and impassable being seems incapable of the kind of episodic emotion (sympathy, empathy) that seems required for the best sorts of human love. Models more conducive to human love, on the other hand, are often rejected because they seem to limit God's power and glory. This Element looks first at God and then divine love within the Abrahamic traditions--Islam, Christianity and Judaism. It will then turn to love and the problem of hell, which is argued as primarily a problem for Christians. The author discusses the kind of love each tradition asks of humans and wonders, given recent work in the relevant cognitive and social sciences, if such love is even humanly possible. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.


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