For the joy set before us
Subtitle: Augustine and self-denying love
By: Gerald W. Schlabach
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001.; University of Notre Dame Press; University of Notre Dame Press, 2001
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Love; Self-denial; Christianity
Description: "Age-old debates over self-love and self-denial continue in the Christian community. Many regard self-love as incompatible with the self-sacrifice of Christ. Others, especially feminists and liberation theologians, contest the notion that self-sacrifice is the test of authentic Christian love. The resolution to this dilemma, argues Gerald Schlabach, lies with St. Augustine.".

"In this book, Schlabach examines how Augustine reconciled self-love and self-denial in a unified Christian love. He demonstrates the crucial role that continence played in Augustine's teaching. It is much more than an attitude toward sexuality. Rather, it is the operative mode of Augustinian caritas."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem of self-denial; title: The structure of Augustinian caritas; title: The grammar of Augustinian continence; title: Augustinian continence as a response to the gospel imperative; title: The judgment of Augustinian continence; title: Sustaining self-denial.