The Power and Vulnerabililty of Love
The Power and Vulnerabililty of Love

Author: Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2015-02-01

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1451494203

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Gandolfo constructs a theological anthropology that begins with the condition of human vulnerability as a site to answer why human beings experience and inflict terrible suffering. This volume argues that vulnerability is a dimension of human existence that causes us great anxiety, which forms the basis for violence but also affords the possibility of human openness to the redemptive work of divine love. Poised paradoxically between tragic and redemptive vulnerability, human beings need existential resources and empowering practices to cope with and manage our vulnerability in more compassionate ways.

In The Name of Love
In The Name of Love

Author: Aaron Ben-Ze'ev

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-02-21

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0191546534

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We yearn to experience the idealized love depicted in so many novels, movies, poems, and popular songs. Ironically, it is the idealization of love that arms it with its destructive power. Popular media consistently remind us that love is all we need, but statistics concerning the rate of depression and suicides after divorce or romantic break up remind us what might happened if "all that we need" is taken away. This book is about our ideals of love, our experiences, of love, the actual disparity between the two, and the manners of coping with this disparity. A major study case of the book concerns men who have murdered their wives or partners allegedly 'out of love'. It is estimated that over 30% of all female murder victims in the United States die at the hands of a former or present spouse or boyfriend. How can murdering a loved one be associated with the assumed moral and altruistic love? Not only is love intrinsically ambivalent, but it can also give rise to dangerous consequences. Some of the worst evils have been committed in the name of love (as in the name of God). A unique collaboration between a leading philosopher in the field of emotions and a social scientist, In the Name of Love presents fascinating insights into romantic love and its future in modern society.

Love in the Hebrew Bible
Love in the Hebrew Bible

Author: Song-Mi Suzie Park

Publisher: Presbyterian Publishing Corp

Published: 2023-05-30

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1646983165

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Christians insist that love stands at the heart of who God is. Yet, when we talk about love in the Hebrew Bible, how much do we really know? Possessing such a belief alone does not mean that we possess a clear understanding of what love is. Are we aware of how often divine and human love are tied up with the idea of preference for one individual or group over another? Do we know how often descriptions of love involve questions of power, authority, and gender? Do we see that love is connected to suffering, betrayal, and sometimes death in the Hebrew Scriptures? In Love in the Hebrew Bible, one of the first book-length studies of its kind, Suzie Park provides fascinating and essential insights into these questions, refreshing our understanding of the meaning of love in the Hebrew Bible. Pushing against characterizations of the loving God of the New Testament narrative universe versus the wrathful God of the Old Testament, Park shows that love is integral to the ways in which relationships, both among people and also between humanity and God, are imagined in the Hebrew text. Reflecting matrices of meaning and associations, love thus is a vital component of the ideology and theology of the Hebrew Scriptures, and an understanding of it remains fundamental to our knowledge of the biblical text.

An Impossible Love
An Impossible Love

Author: Christine Angot

Publisher: Archipelago

Published: 2021-12-21

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1953861040

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An agonizing turbulence lies just beneath the surface of this skillfully wrought novel by the French phenom who caused a sensation with the publication of her novel Incest. Reaching back into a world before she was born, Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a dance in the early 1950s: Rachel and Pierre, her mother and father. Their love is acute. It twists around Pierre's decisive judgments about class, nationalism, and beauty, and winds its way towards dissolution and Christine's own birth. Though it's Pierre whose ideas are most often voiced, it's Rachel who slowly comes into view, her determination and patience forming a radiant, enigmatic disposition. Equal parts subtle and suspenseful, An Impossible Love is an unwavering advance toward a brutal sequence of events that mars both Christine's and Rachel's lives. Angot the author carves Angot the narrator out of this corrosive element, exposing an unmendable rupture, and at the same time offering a portrait of a striking, ineradicable bond between mother and daughter.

The Theology Third Book in the Biblical Evolution Revolution Series
The Theology Third Book in the Biblical Evolution Revolution Series

Author: Michael Stansfield

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-09-05

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 0359900313

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PART1, brings Biblical opposing viewpoints to the traditional monotheistic, trinitarian, beliefs of God. Other long held cornerstones of the establishment are also challenged such as the gender and sexuality of God. The Big-Bang is used as a source for creation and understanding the composition of God, Divine Beings (Angels and Demons) as well as Heaven, Hell, and Creation. The relationship between the Divine and Humanity is also completely redefined. As with all of the B.E.R. books, the discussion is candid and groundbreaking. PART 2, takes a candid look at the Hellenistic origins of the Christian Church and how those origins formed Christianity into what it is today. What positive attributes were lost and what negative attributes were gained. Also, what a true position evolution of the Early Church would look like in modern times and the introduction to path to Enlightenment based on how such a transformation has the potential to truly evolve humanity.