A Metaphysics of Love: A Philosophy of Christian Life Part 3

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A Metaphysics of Love: A Philosophy of Christian Life, Part III
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Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Call, the Concept, and the Metaphysics of Love
	The Call of Love and the Concept of Love
	The End of Metaphysics
	Cosmic Love
	Love and Being
	Love and Freedom
Chapter 2: Love and Language
	Love and be Silent?
	The Look of Love
	You shall Love
	Commandment and Call
	Promise and Language
	Dante and the Language of Love
Chapter 3: Love and Time
	Introduction
	Time in Philosophy and Theology
	Kierkegaard on Time and Love
		(1) How to Start Loving
		(2) Love Abides
		(3) The Gift of Time
	Franz Rosenzweig
	Edwin Muir
Chapter 4: Moral Man, Immoral Society
	A Kingdom of Love?
	Hegel on the Family
	Catholic Teaching on the Family
	The Community of Blood and the Accidental Family
	The Church
	Concluding Reflection
Chapter 5: Love Came Down at Christmas
	Introduction
	The Impossibility of Love
	The Miracle of Christmas
	A New Beginning: Unto Us a Child Is Born
	A New Beginning: Forgiveness
	The Presence of the Incarnate Christ
Chapter 6: In the End, Love
	Love and Death
	Immortality and Timelessness
	From Immortality to Eternity
	Excursus: Heidegger on Death and Love
	Death, Solidarity, and the Communion of Saints
	Poetic Testimony
Chapter 7: The Truth of Love
	Reflections on Truth
	Cosmic Love (Again)
	Cosmic Love 1: Into the Anthropocene
	Cosmic Love 2: The Testament of Beauty
	Love and Being (Again)
	Philosophy and Faith
Bibliography
	Works by Kierkegaard
	Secondary Literature on Kierkegaard
	Works by Heidegger
	Catholic Teaching
	General Literature
Index