THE LOVE RACKET: DEFINING LOVE AND AGAPEFOR THE LOVE-AND-SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM.
Scholars of religion and science have generated remarkable scholarship in recent years in their explorations of love. Exactly how scholars involved in this budding field believe that love and science should relate and/or be integrated varies greatly. What they share in common is the belief that issu...
| Publicado en: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 919 - 939 |
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Dec2005
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=18942576&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 18942576 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 05912385 ZYG jtl: Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science issn: 05912385 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2005 vid: 40 iid: 4 pid: 15576 pub: Open Library of Humanities artinfo: ui: 18942576 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2005.00717.x ppf: 919 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 80KB tig: atl: THE LOVE RACKET: DEFINING LOVE AND AGAPEFOR THE LOVE-AND-SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM. aug: au: Oord, Thomas Jay affil: Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University, 623 Holly St., Nampa, ID 83686 su: Agape Religion & science Intellectuals Radio scripts Research sug: subj: Agape Religion & science Intellectuals Radio scripts Research keyword: agape altruism Anders Nygren definition Edward Collins Vacek empathy eros ethics God hiesed Institute for Research on Unlimited Love intentionality John E. Fetzer Institute John Templeton Foundation love love and science morality mutuality philia Pitirim Sorokin relatedness religion science self-sacrifice Stephen Post symbiosis sympathy theology unlimited love virtue well-being ab: Scholars of religion and science have generated remarkable scholarship in recent years in their explorations of love. Exactly how scholars involved in this budding field believe that love and science should relate and/or be integrated varies greatly. What they share in common is the belief that issues of love are of paramount importance and that the various scientific disciplines—whether natural, social, or religious—must be brought to bear upon how best to understand love. I briefly introduce the emergence of the love-and-science research program and note that scholars have not done well defining what they mean by love. I suggest that the present surge in love scholarship will fail to produce the positive results that it otherwise might if love is not defined well. I provide and defend a definition of love adequate for those doing love-and-science research: To love is to act intentionally, in sympathetic response to others (including God), to promote well-being. To explain better what this simple definition entails, I explore its three main phrases. Love is said to have many forms, but agape is the form to which the love-and-science literature most commonly refers. I comment briefly on the debates about how to best understand agape, noting sixteen different definitions proposed by major scholars. I identify weaknesses in many of them and then offer what I argue is a more adequate definition of agape as intentional response to promote well-being when confronted by that which generates ill-being. In short, agape repays evil with good. While research on love and science requires much more than adequate definitions, I believe that the definitions I proffer can prove useful in furthering the love-and-science research program. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science is the property of Open Library of Humanities and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science holder: Open Library of Humanities dt: @attributes: year: 2005 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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