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SELF LOVE AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS
Self love is an inescapable problem for ethics, yet much of
contemporary ethics is reluctant to offer any normative moral
anthropologies. Instead, secular ethics and contemporary
culture promote a norm of self-realization which is subjective
and uncritical. Christian ethics also fails to provide easy or
direct resources to address this problem, because it tends to
investigate self love with respect to conflicts between the self ’s
interests and those of her neighbors. Self Love and Christian
Ethics explicates and defends right self love by casting it as
a problem of proper self-relation that intersects with love
for God and love for neighbor. This book argues that right
self love entails a true self-understanding that is embodied
in the person’s concrete acts and relations. In making this
argument, it calls ethics to revisit ontological accounts of the
self and to devote more attention to particular moral acts.
is Assistant Professor of Theo-
logy at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies,
Villanova University. She has written for The Journal of Reli-
gious Ethics and Religious Studies Review .
darlene fozard weaver
new studies in christian ethics
General Editor
Robin Gill
Editorial Board
Stephen R. L. Clark, Stanley Hauerwas, Robin W. Lovin
Christian ethics has increasingly assumed a central place within academic
theology. At the same time the growing power and ambiguity of modern
science and the rising dissatisfactionwithin the social sciences about claims
to value-neutrality have prompted renewed interest in ethics within the
secular academic world. There is, therefore, a need for studies in Christian
ethics which, as well as being concerned with the relevance of Christian
ethics to the present-day secular debate, are well informed about parallel
discussions in recent philosophy, science or social science. New Studies in
Christian Ethics aims to provide books that do this at the highest intel-
lectual level and demonstrate that Christian ethics can make a distinctive
contribution to this debate – either in moral substance or in terms of
underlying moral justifications.
Titles published in the series:
1
. Rights and Christian Ethics Kieran Cronin
2
. Biblical Interpretation and Christian Ethics Ian McDonald
3
. Power and Christian Ethics James Mackey
4
. Plurality and Christian Ethics Ian S. Markham
5
. Moral Action and Christian Ethics Jean Porter
6
. Responsibility and Christian Ethics William Schweiker
7
. Justice and Christian Ethics E. Clinton Gardner
8
. Feminism and Christian Ethics Susan Parsons
9
. Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics Lisa Sowle Cahill
10
. The Environment and Christian Ethics Michael S. Northcott
11
. Concepts of Person and Christian Ethics Stanley Rudman
12
. Priorities and Christian Ethics Garth Hallett
. Community, Liberalism and Christian Ethics David Fergusson
14
. The Market Economy and Christian Ethics Peter Sedgwick
15
. Churchgoing and Christian Ethics Robin Gill
16
. Inequality and Christian Ethics Douglas Hicks
17
. Biology and Christian Ethics Stephen Clark
18
. Altruism and Christian Ethics Colin Grant
19
. The Public Forum and Christian Ethics Robert Gascoigne
20
. Evil and Christian Ethics Gordon Graham
21
. Living Together and Christian Ethics Adrian Thatcher
22
. The Common Good and Christian Ethics David Hollenbach, S. J.
23
. Self Love and Christian Ethics Darlene Fozard Weaver
13
SELF LOVE AND
CHRISTIAN ETHICS
DARLENE FOZARD WEAVER
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