The Model of Love: A Study in Philosophical Theology

By Vincent Brümmer

Religious believers understand the meaning of their lives and of the world in terms of the way these are related to God. How, Vincent Br mmer asks, does the model of love apply to this relationship? He shows that most views on love take it to be an attitude rather than a relationship: exclusive attention (Ortega y Gasset), ecstatic union (nuptial mysticism), passionate suffering (courtly love), need-love (Plato, Augustine) and gift-love (Nygren). In discussing the issues, Br mmer inquires what role these attitudes play within the love-relationship and examines the implications of using the model of love as a key paradigm in theology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052144909X
• ISBN13: 9780521449090
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

What I can see as the essence of life...

With definitive argumentation Vincent Brummer is able to convey the nature of love as most of us experience it here upon God's beautiful earth. To bad many fail to realize the gift of love that God has for us all. Ours is to give and to receive, thus in doing so we are able know and identify with who and what is truly significant to our nature... that of knowing and belonging to all that is and truly the essence of life... that is love itself.