Selfless Love
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Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch
Author: Julia Theresa Meszaros
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2016
In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, "selfless love" can appear as a threat to the lover's personal well-being. This perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it and therefore calls for a theological response. In conversation with the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich and the atheistic moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch enquires into the anthropological grounds on which selfless love can be said to build up, rather than undermine, the lover's self. It proposes that while the implausibility of selfless love was furthered by the modern deconstruction of the self, both Tillich and Murdoch utilize this very deconstruction towards explicating and restoring the link between selfless love and human flourishing. Julia T. Meszaros shows that they use the modern diagnosis of the human being's lack of a stable and independent self as manifest in Sartre's existentialism in support of an understanding of the self as relational and fallen. This leads them to view a loving orientation away from self and a surrender to the other as critical to the full flourishing of human selfhood. In arguing that Tillich and Murdoch defend the link between selfless love and human flourishing through reference to the human being's ontological selflessness, Meszaros closely engages Soren Kierkegaard's earlier attempt to keep selfless love and human flourishing in a productive, dialectical tension. She also examines the breakdown of this tension in the later figures of Anders Nygren, Simone Weil, and Jean-Paul Sartre, and addresses the pitfalls of this breakdown. Her examination concludes by arguing that the link between selfless love and human flourishing would be strengthened by a more resolute endorsement of a personal God, and of the reciprocal nature of selfless love.
Selfless Love
Author: Ellen Jikai Birx
language: en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date: 2014-04-01
Selfless Love shows how meditation can help us realize that we don’t love—we are love. Gentle, elegant, and radically inspiring, Selfless Love presents a holistic, experiential meditative path that enables us to see beyond our preconceived notions of identity, spirituality, and humanity. Drawing equally from Zen parables, her experience as a mental health therapist, and the Gospels, Ellen Birx shows us that through meditation we can recognize that our true selves are not selves at all - that all beings are united in unbounded, infinite awareness and love, beyond words. Recognizing the limitations of language in describing the indescribable, Birx concludes each chapter in the Zen tradition of "turning words" with a verse meant to invite insights.
THE POWER Of SELFLESS LOVE
Is it possible to truly possess a selfless love for others? Loving others as a Christian while living in a corrupt, fallen world is tough and our perspective of genuine and selfless love is everything. The greater your knowledge of God's love for you, the greater your capacity to extend that love to others around you. This book will provide you with the perspective needed to weather the storms, but not only that, It will empower you will leave a legacy of selfless love behind.Let me show you what I have learned about love, and how I discovered what it takes to truly give and receive love. I call it The Power of Selfless Love, and whatever you call it after you read this book, it will change your life and every life your life touches. You and I were created to wield this power and there is not any force of hatred that can stand against it. You have everything you need to learn its secret in your hands. It's time to stop talking about love, and start living out love!