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Embracing Vulnerability

Autor Roberto Sirvent
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 apr 2017
Arguments in favour of divine impassibility take many forms, one of which is moral. This argument views emotional risk, vulnerability, suffering, and self-love as obstacles to moral perfection. In Embracing Vulnerability: Human and Divine, the author challenges these mistaken assumptions about moral judgment. Through an analysis of Hebrew thought and modern philosophical accounts of love, justice, and emotion, Roberto Sirvent reveals a fundamental incompatibility between divine impassibility and the Imitation of God ethic (imitatio Dei). This book shows that a God who is not emotionally vulnerable is a God unworthy of our imitation. But in what sense can we call divine impassibility immoral? To be sure, God's moral nature teaches humanswhat it means to live virtuously. But can human understandings of morality teach us something about God's moral character? If true, how should we go about judging God's moral character? Isn't it presumptuous to do so? After all, if we are going to challenge divine impassibility on moral grounds, what reason do we have to assume that God is bound by our standards of morality? Embracing Vulnerability: Human and Divine addresses these questions and many others. In the process, Sirvent argues for the importance of thinking morally about theology, inviting scholars in the fields of philosophical theology and Christian ethics to place their theological commitments under close moral scrutiny, and to consider how these commitments reflect and shape our understanding of the good life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780227176498
ISBN-10: 0227176499
Pagini: 210
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: BOYDELL & BREWER

Cuprins

Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Divine Impassibility 3 Imitatio Dei and Reasoning about God's Moral Nature 4 Emotional Vulnerability in the Moral Life 5 Emotional Vulnerability in the Moral Life: An Old Testament Perspective 6 The Immorality of Impassibility Conclusion: Thinking Morally about Theology Bibliography Index

Descriere

A study in moral theology that argues that the doctrine of divine impassibility is incompatible with the notion of God as moral exemplar.