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God and the Problems of Love

God and the Problems of Love
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God and the Problems of Love

Kelly James Clark, Ibn Haldun Universitesi, Istanbul
December 2023
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    Religious believers are often commanded to love like God. On classical accounts, God seems a poor model for human beings: an immutable and impassable being seems incapable of the kind of episodic emotion (sympathy, empathy) that seems required for the best sorts of human love. Models more conducive to human love, on the other hand, are often rejected because they seem to limit God's power and glory. This Element looks first at God and then divine love within the Abrahamic traditions—Islam, Christianity and Judaism. It will then turn to love and the problem of hell, which is argued as primarily a problem for Christians. The author discusses the kind of love each tradition asks of humans and wonders, given recent work in the relevant cognitive and social sciences, if such love is even humanly possible. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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    December 2023
    Adobe eBook Reader
    9781009269179
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    This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.

    Table of Contents

    • 1. God and love
    • 2. God and love
    • 3. Love and hell
    • 4. Human love
    • References.
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    • Kelly James Clark , Ibn Haldun Universitesi, Istanbul