How is love conceived and mapped onto the conceptual landscape of antiquity? In this volume, Crabbe and Lincicum assemble a set of essays that analyze the concept of love in ancient Judaism and Christianity from the minor prophets to Methodius of Olympus, with a central focus on the texts that came to make up the New Testament.
The centrality and significance of love for much of ancient Judaism and Christianity are clear. But if there is a broad, even if not universal, agreement on the importance of love, the singularity of the term »love« covers over a multitude of differences in how love is conceived and mapped onto the conceptual landscape of antiquity. In this volume, Crabbe and Lincicum assemble a set of essays that analyze the concept of love from the minor prophets to Methodius of Olympus, with a central focus on the texts that came to make up the New Testament.
Table of contents:
Gary A. Anderson: No Mercy without Justice, No Justice without Mercy -
David Lincicum: A Contest of Desires: Eros, Self-Love, and Love of God in Philo of Alexandria -
Courtney J. P. Friesen: Friendship and Other Mortal Dangers between Greek Tragedy and Ancient Christianity -
Mary Marshall: The Look of Love: Interpreting Human and Divine Love in Mark 10:21 -
Kylie Crabbe: Who Will Love More? Loving Rightly as Discipleship Response in Luke -
Marianne Meye Thompson: »God so Loved the World« -
Jane Heath: »Fear Thrice Denied, Love Thrice Confessed«: Love and Vocation in John 21:15-19 -
Teresa Morgan: Living and Loving in the »Present Evil Age« -
Grant Macaskill: Measuring the Unmeasurable: Reframing the Language of Mystery, Knowledge, and Love in Ephesians 3-4 -
Nicholas J. Moore: The Human, Priestly Compassion of the Divine Son in the Letter to the Hebrews -
C. Kavin Rowe: Love is a Work: The Contribution of James to a Theology of Love -
Jennifer Strawbridge: Love without Christ is Dead: The Saving Power of Love in 1 Peter -
Nathan Eubank: Love, the Law, and Eternal Life -
Richard B. Hays: Is Love All You Need? A Reconsideration of the Role of Love in New Testament Ethics -
Christopher M. Hays: How Justice and Mercy Became Charity: The Emergence of Love as a Motivation for Care for the Needy -
Benjamin A. Edsall: »Love Lifts Us Up Where We Belong«: The Role of Love in the Gospels of Truth and Philip -
Mark W. Elliott: Origen, Methodius, and Love's Freedom
