1st Edition

Love, Religion, and God

Edited By Fiona Ellis, David Worsley Copyright 2027
280 Pages
by Routledge

This book takes a philosophical and theological approach to aspects of love, religion, and God, including secular and diverse religious perspectives. The question of the relation between love, religion, and God is a central concern for both atheists and theists; and philosophers, theologians, and scientists have drawn interesting and sometimes conflicting conclusions about the nature of this... Read more

List of contributors

Introduction

Fiona Ellis

PART 1

1. ‘Loving in Freedom’: Resolving some Conundrums about God as Love

     Paul S. Fiddes

2. ‘God is Love’ is a Grammatical Remark

    David Ellis

3. The Power of (Divine) Love

     Elizabeth Burns

4. Imago Demiurge: Toward a Platonic Conception of the Human Calling

    Talbot Brewer

5. Simone Weil on Love, Obligation, and Expectation

    Stuart Jesson

6. God, agnosticism, and the love of knowledge: a semi-scholastic reflection

    Sylvia Wilczewska

7. The Bondage of Love: Erotic soteriology and androgynous divinity in the Gītagovinda

     Mikel Burley

8. In Praise of Storgē

    Sarah Pawlett Jackson

9. Play, Love, and Transcendence

    Douglas Hedley

10. Minimal Theology and Love: A Mystical Journey

      Jessica Eastwood

11. Finitude, Eternity, Love, the Good, and Martin Hägglund’s This Life

      Greg Restall

12. The Turn to Affect: Religious Understanding, Nihilism, and Being Human

       Fiona Ellis

13. Who by Fire?: Love at the Limit of Being

      Judith Wolfe

PART 2

14. Humility, Faith, Charity, and the History of Philosophy: A Tribute to Maria Rosa Antognazza

Alex Douglas

15. Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964-2023): Historian of Philosophy or Philosopher of Religion?

Howard Hotson

16. Maria Rosa Antognazza (1964-2023): Bibliography, organised thematically and chronologically

Howard Hotson

Index

Biography

Fiona Ellis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, UK.

David Worsley is a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of York, UK.