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This book explores the way that the study of love creates a "common ground" in religion. For the contributors, common ground is not to be understood as a minimal core of belief, but as a space which scholars from Islam, Judaism, and Christianity occupy in order to consider together the meaning and practice of love.
List of contents
1. God is Love, but is Love God? Towards a Theology of Love as Knowledge
Paul S. Fiddes
Love in Islam
2. Love in the Holy Qur'an
HRH Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan
3. The Journey of Love and the Challenges of the "Self": R¿m¿'s View in Islamic Context.
Leyla Tajer
4. Bridal Symbolism, Eroticization of Divine Love and Friendship Among Medieval Female Mystics in Islam and Christianity
Minlib Dallh
Love in Judaism
5. Judaism's Commandment to Love: "A Well-Tempered Banality" or the Messianic Trumpet's Blast?
Melissa Raphael
6. Harmony of Mind and Body: Theories of Love in Rabbinic and Mystical Literature
Naftali Rothenberg
7. Tensions within the Study of Love in Religion: Reflections Arising from Conversation
between Jewish and Christian Scholars
Eleanor McLaughlin
Love in Christianity
8. Transfiguring Love in Byzantine Theology: The System of St. Maximus the Confessor
Smilen Markov
9. "Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth": Erotic Love in the Western Christian Mystical Tradition
Louise Nelstrop
10. Sacrifice and the Self: A Christian Mystery of Love
Julia T. Meszaros
Common Philosophical Traditions about Love
11. Love and the Limits of Platonic Desire
Fiona Ellis
12. The Universal and the Individual: Aristotle on Substance and Friendship-Love (Philia)
Mircea Dumitru
The Study of Love in Religion
13. Theological Reflections on "Christian" and "Human" Love
Werner G. Jeanrond
14. Love as Belonging: Towards an Interdisciplinary Understanding of the Human
Oliver Davies
15. The Potentialities of Love in Social, Political and Economic Contexts
Paul Weller
About the author
Paul S. Fiddes is professor of systematic theology in the University of Oxford, Principal Emeritus of Regent's Park College, Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow of the College.
Summary
This book explores the way that the study of love creates a “common ground” in religion. For the contributors, common ground is not to be understood as a minimal core of belief, but as a space which scholars from Islam, Judaism, and Christianity occupy in order to consider together the meaning and practice of love.
