Christian Friendship
Engaging the Tradition, Transforming the Culture
- Publisher: Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2019
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Publisher's Description
In response to a contemporary cultural situation in which human dignity is gravely threatened, Christian Friendship proposes a recovery of friendship as a new way of re-establishing the interpersonal communion that characterizes the human person created in the image of God. The author seeks to recover a genuine understanding of friendship by exploring ancient philosophy and the Catholic theological tradition. By examining the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Anselm, and others, Christian Friendship proposes a new way for Catholics to address the cultural issues besetting the Christian community today.
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“John Bequette's Christian Friendship: Engaging the Tradition, Transforming the Culture makes an important contribution to our understanding of friendship as the crowning achievement of human culture. In doing so, the author traces over the course of four historical periods the concept of relationality as something inherent to our design as rational beings created in the image and likeness of God. This book really is a must-read for those seeking to understand how the philosophical and theological anthropology of interpersonal communion is transformative of culture and increases human flourishing.”
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