Caritas : neighbourly love and the early modern self /
Caritas, a form of grace that turned our love for our neighbour into a spiritual practice, was expected of all early modern Christians, and corresponded with a set of ethical rules for living that displayed one's love in the everyday. Caritas was not just a willingness to behave morally, to kee...
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- Englisch
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2021]
- Ausgabe:
- New product.
- Zusammenfassung:
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Caritas, a form of grace that turned our love for our neighbour into a spiritual practice, was expected of all early modern Christians, and corresponded with a set of ethical rules for living that displayed one's love in the everyday. Caritas was not just a willingness to behave morally, to keep the peace, and to uphold social order however, but was expected to be felt as a strong passion, like that of a parent to a child. This book explores the importance of caritas to early modern communities, introducing the concept of the 'emotional ethic' to explain how neighbourly love become not only a code for moral living but a part of felt experience.
- Umfang:
- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Zielpublikum:
- Specialized.
- Bibliografie:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
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0-19-263851-3
0-19-190467-8
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Parallelausgabe: 0-19-886813-8
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