The Betrayal of Charity: The Sins that Sabotage Divine Love - Softcover

Matthew Levering (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602583560 ISBN 13: 9781602583566

Publisher: Baylor University Press, 2011

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Review:

The Betrayal of Charity: The Sins That Sabotage Divine Love is a piece of scholarship that is unique and creative in its approach and well worth reading. It offers the reader an engaging, scholarly treatment of sins against love and how these sins relate to current issues.

--Perry J. Cahall, Pontifical College Josephinum "The Thomist "

Levering demonstrates that 'contemplating charity in light of its opposites' will deepen our understanding of the primary theological virtue. This work of moral theology takes scripture and Thomas Aquinas as chief sources for insightful reflections on hatred, sloth, envy, discord, schism, violence and scandal. Levering's brilliance lies in clearing away the sins that sabotage divine love through critical readings of Christianity's critics.

--The Christian Century

About the Author:

Matthew Levering is Perry Family Foundation Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary. Jewish-Christian Dialogue and the Life of Wisdom ; Christ and the Catholic Priesthood ; Participatory Biblical Exegesis ; and Biblical Natural Law . He lives Mundelein, Illinois.

About this edition

• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1602583560
• ISBN 13: 9781602583566
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200