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LOVE AS SACRIFICE, LOVE AS MUTUALITY: RESPONSE TO JEFFREY TILLMAN
Author(s) -
Browning Don
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00938.x
Subject(s) - sacrifice , protestantism , psychoanalysis , psychology , social psychology , philosophy , sociology , theology
. Jeffrey Tillman is perceptive in noticing that certain Protestant theologians have used evolutionary theory to become more sympathetic to Roman Catholic views of Christian love. But he is incorrect in saying that these formulations deemphasize a place for self‐sacrifice in Christian love. Christian love defined as a strenuous equal‐regard for both other and self also requires sacrificial efforts to restore love as equal‐regard when finitude and sin undermine genuine mutuality and community.