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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 7 - Adjudication of Last Resort
To Love as Christ Loves
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 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.
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- Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics , pp. 214 - 247Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023