Abstract
While there is wide agreement on the importance of love to Christian ethics, just what an ethics of love includes and entails differs depending upon how Christian love is understood. Toward clarifying the relationship between love and Christian ethics, this essay briefly engages the highly influential agapist conception of love and questions its sufficiency as the basis of Christian ethics. Consideration of some apparent shortcomings of the agapist conception leads to the proposal that the continued quest for a more intentionally and distinctively biblical conception of divine love is integral to a compelling and faithfully Christian ethics of love.
Recommended Citation
Peckham, John C.
(2016)
"ETHICS OF LOVE? MORALITY AND THE MEANING OF DIVINE LOVE,"
Andrews University Seminary Student Journal: Vol. 2:
No.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/aussj/vol2/iss1/3
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