文档介绍：Religious believers understand the meaning of their lives
and of the world in terms of the way these are related to
God. How, Vincent Briimmer inquires, does the model of
love apply to this relationship? He shows that most views
of love take it to be an attitude rather than a relationship:
exclusive attention (Ortega y Gasset), ecstatic union
(nuptial mysticism), passionate suffering (courtly love),
need-love (Plato, Augustine), and gift-love (Nygren). In
discussing the pertinent issues, Briimmer inquires whether
these attitudes have a role to play in the love-relationship,
and so develops a relational concept of love which can
serve as a key model in theology.
THE MODEL OF LOVE
THE MODEL OF LOVE
A study in philosophical theology
VINCENT BRUMMER
Professor in the Philosophy of Religion,
University of Utrecht
CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
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© Cambridge University Press 1993
First published 1993
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress cataloguing in publication data
Brummer, Vincent.
The model of love: a study in philosophical theology / Vincent Brummer.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN o 521 44463 2 (hardback), ISBN O 521 44909 x (paperback).
1. Love. 1. Title.
1993
I 28'.4—dc2O 92-423OO GIP
ISBN o 521 44463 2 hardback
ISBN 0521 44909 x paperback
Transferred to digital printing 2002
For Jean,
from whom through the years I have learnt the meaning of loving
fellowship.
Contents
Preface page xi
PART I CHOOSING A MODEL
i Models and metaphors 3
Metaphorical thinking 4
Models in science 10
Models in religion 13
Models in systematic theology 19
The model of love 29
PART II ROMANTIC LOVE
2 Exclusive at