Transforming Philosophy And Religion Loves Wisdom Benson Bruce Ellis Wirzba by Benson, Bruce Ellis; Wirzba, Norman 9780253350732, 9780253000194, 0253350735, 025300019X instant download after payment.

How does love affect philosophy? A common theme in this collection of essays is that in order to do philosophy one must already love, so how does that love transform the philosophy as a result?
Reflections on the first essay by Wirzba "The Primacy of Love": - strikes me from his reading of Paul that a difference between Buddhism and Christianity is the recognition that love in the western sense is necessary in order to know God - to love God as other. If so, then Pope Benedict XVI's point in "Truth and Tolerance" that Christianity is an advance over Buddhism fits the evolutionary model since Christianity is a more highly evolved understanding of Man's relationship to the Divine.

Norman Wirzba, Bruce Ellis Benson, and an international group of philosophers and theologians describe how various expressions of philosophy are transformed by the discipline of love. What is at stake is how philosophy colors and shapes the way we receive and engage each other, our world, and God. Focusing primarily on the Continental tradition of philosophy of religion, the work presented in this volume engages thinkers such as St. Paul, Meister Eckhart, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Ricoeur, Derrida, Marion, Zizek, Irigaray, and Michele Le Doeuff. Emerging from the book is a complex definition of the wisdom of love which challenges how we think about nature, social justice, faith, gender, creation, medicine, politics, and ethics.