’18 It is not only self - abnegation but also fulfilment which the outgoing love
of agape offers to love as affection, and affection may be the first school of agape.
Peirce's notion
of agape offers a conceptual frame for articulating, if not resolving, this paradox at the same time that it extends his thesis of spontaneity.
Not exact matches
A personalistic philosophy
of life does not
offer us absolute knowledge;... we discover divine purpose in so far as our human purposes are ruled by the New Testament principles
of logos and
agape - reason and love.
Thus, paradoxically, in
offering itself, it generates the excellence which, out
of agape, it gives to its creature.
This discussion began with the observation that Peirce
offered an insight into speculation about evolution when he introduced the notion
of agape as an operative principle.
He makes clear that the incredible rationalizations and justifications
of anti-Semitism which have been
offered have been perversions
of the very
agape which Christ incarnates:
Those who
offer a contextual Christian ethic in our own day seem to be so far in accord with the biblical view that justice is to be sought as the expression
of the life
of the covenant community as it undertakes in the spirit
of agape to bring reconciliation among men.
Agape thus challenges the claim to absoluteness
of every other love since what it
offers transcends every private satisfaction, desire, or value.
Erotic desire signifies the possibility
of a self - generated fulfillment that satisfies personal need and rewards worldly accomplishment.9 Against this urge
of the world Nygren pits the
agape of Christ through whom God by divine initiative
offers the free gift
of salvation.
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