Author | : David L. Goicoechea |
File Size | : 41,9 Mb |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 19 February 2015 |
ISBN | : 9781625646217 |
Pages | : 376 pages |
Agape and Hesed Ahava by David L. Goicoechea Book PDF Summary
Goicoechea presents his third volume in a series on agape. In this book he shows in four ways how the agape of Jesus fulfills the ahava and hesed of the Hebrew Bible. First, he shows existentially how he learned and lived this for six years in a Benedictine Minor Seminary and then for three years in a Sulpician Major Seminary. Second, he demonstrates how ahava or our love for God and neighbor and hesed or God's love for us develop through the Hebrew Bible. Goicoechea argues that St. Matthew's Gospel explains the fulfilment of ahava and hesed with Jesus' agape. He concludes by drawing attention to how Levinas and Derrida, two Jewish postmodern philosophers, treat Jewish and Christian love.