Theocentric Agape and the Self: An Asymmetrical Affirmation in Response to Colin Grant's Either/Or

Journal of Religious Ethics 24 (1):35-42 (1996)
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Abstract

Colin Grant ranges widely in his attempt to retrieve Anders Nygren 's depiction of agape, but the claims I examine here are that agape is distinctive, we should offer a theocentric account of it, Nygren 's altruism should be endorsed, and secular defenses of impartiality are not other-regarding enough. I accept and, reject, and deny that is our only alternative to. Neighbor-love and self-love are like and unlike each other, and the unlikenesses are of more than one kind.

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