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  • Chapter 7 - Adjudication of Last Resort

  • from Part II - How and Why Agape-Justice Conflicts Arise
  • Albino Barrera, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics
    Published online:
    19 October 2023
    Print publication:
    02 November 2023, pp 214-247

  • Summary

    Agape-justice conflicts provide unique opportunities for growth in supernatural excellence. There are “no tidy answers” in sorting through competing duties of justice and agape. However, justice’s obligees who hold strong legal and moral claims can voluntarily and generously choose to forego their claim-rights in favor of those who have none—agape’s beneficiaries. If we can give of ourselves with alacrity, then, even the most intractable agape-justice conflicts can be resolved with the adjudication of last resort—to love as Christ loves. Doing so leads to growth in Christified agape, that is, caritas. Such self-giving dissolves the competing claims of agape and justice.