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- Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics
- New Studies in Christian Ethics
- Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- General Editor’s Preface
- Preface
- Part I Nature of the Conflict
- Part II How and Why Agape-Justice Conflicts Arise
- Chapter 4 Socioeconomic Disequilibria
- Chapter 5 Unattended Past Wrongs
- Chapter 6 Grace Building on Nature
- Chapter 7 Adjudication of Last Resort
- Chapter 8 Growth in Collective Virtue
- Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusions
- References
- Index
- Titles Published in the Series ()
Chapter 9 - Summary and Conclusions
Epistemological or Ontological?
from Part II - How and Why Agape-Justice Conflicts Arise
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2023
- Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics
- New Studies in Christian Ethics
- Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- General Editor’s Preface
- Preface
- Part I Nature of the Conflict
- Part II How and Why Agape-Justice Conflicts Arise
- Chapter 4 Socioeconomic Disequilibria
- Chapter 5 Unattended Past Wrongs
- Chapter 6 Grace Building on Nature
- Chapter 7 Adjudication of Last Resort
- Chapter 8 Growth in Collective Virtue
- Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusions
- References
- Index
- Titles Published in the Series ()
Summary
Agape-justice conflicts are epistemological in nature because they arise from limitations in human knowledge. However, they may in fact be also ontological in nature as occasions to give vent to love’s diffusiveness, to develop the moral faculties of reason and freedom, to acquire personal and collective virtue, and to grow in Christified agape (caritas). Even epistemological limitations may, by divine design, also be meant to serve these purposes. Agape-justice conflicts are instrumental for humans’ eventual union with God, their telos. They are occasions for grace to build on our human frailties and brokenness, grace building on nature.
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- Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics , pp. 265 - 276Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023