Embracing Vulnerability: Human and Divine - Couverture rigide

Sirvent, Roberto

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 149822766X ISBN 13 : 9781498227667

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

Arguments in favor 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, Roberto Sirvent challenges these mistaken assumptions about moral judgment. Through an analysis of Hebrew thought and modern philosophical accounts of love, justice, and emotion, Sirvent reveals a fundamental incompatibility between divine impassibility and the Imitation of God ethic (imitatio Dei). Sirvent 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 humans what 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 to 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Roberto Sirvent is Associate Professor of Political and Social Ethics at Hope International University in Fullerton, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 149822766X
• ISBN 13: 9781498227667
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 212
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible