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Barth on Love

Gerald P. McKenny

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God's love for human beings and their love for God and one another is a central theme in Karl Barth's theology as it is in nearly every Christian theology. According to Barth, our love of God and neighbor is grounded in God's love for us. The scriptural love commandment is twofold, and every Christian account of love must determine both what love for God and neighbor are and how they are related. Barth sharply contrasts this form of love, namely, agape with eros. The treatments of agape and eros in CD III/2 and CD IV/2 are conceptually the same but differ in emphasis. Barth undercuts common justifications of acquiescence in unjust relationships as "bearing one's cross." The virtues and vices both follow from the determination of Barth's account of love by his account of grace.

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God's love for human beings and their love for God and one another is a central theme in Karl Barth's theology as it is in nearly every Christian theology. According to Barth, our love of God and neighbor is grounded in God's love for us. The scriptural love commandment is twofold, and every Christian account of love must determine both what love for God and neighbor are and how they are related. Barth sharply contrasts this form of love, namely, agape with eros. The treatments of agape and eros in CD III/2 and CD IV/2 are conceptually the same but differ in emphasis. Barth undercuts common justifications of acquiescence in unjust relationships as "bearing one's cross." The virtues and vices both follow from the determination of Barth's account of love by his account of grace.

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God's love for human beings and their love for God and one another is a central theme in Karl Barth's theology as it is in nearly every Christian theology. According to Barth, our love of God and neighbor is grounded in God's love for us. The scriptural love commandment is twofold, and every Christian account of love must determine both what love for God and neighbor are and how they are related. Barth sharply contrasts this form of love, namely, agape with eros. The treatments of agape and eros in CD III/2 and CD IV/2 are conceptually the same but differ in emphasis. Barth undercuts common justifications of acquiescence in unjust relationships as "bearing one's cross." The virtues and vices both follow from the determination of Barth's account of love by his account of grace.

Key concepts: Agape, Theme (computing), Philosophy, Love of God, Philosophy of love, Jesus christ, Theology, Acquiescence

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