A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR LOVERS

Agape in the New Testament, by Ceslaus Spicq. St. Louis: B. Herder, 1963-1966.

Allen, Diogenes. Love: Christian Romance, Marriage, and Friendship. Cowley, 1987.

________. The Path of Perfect Love. Cowley, 1992.

Andolsen, Barbara Hilkert. "Agape in Feminist Ethics." Journal of Religious Ethics 9 (1981): 69-83.

Arendt, Hannah. Love and Saint Augustine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Avis, Paul. Eros and the Sacred. Harrisburg: Morehouse, 1990.

Berzonsky, Vladimir. The Gift of Love. New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1985.

Brown, Norman O. Love's Body. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.

Brown, Robert. Analyzing Love. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Brummer, Vincent. The Model of Love. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Buscagalia, Leo. Love. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1972.

Butler, Roy F. The Maning of Agapao and Phileo in the Greek New Testament. Lawrence: Coronado, 1977.

Cooey, Paul, Sharon Farmer and Mary Ellen Ross. Embodied Love: Sensuality and Relationship As Feminist Values. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987.

D'Arcy, Martin C. The Mind and Heart of Love, Lion and Unicorn. Cleveland: World, 1964.

DeRougemont, Denis. Love in the Western World. Rev. ed. ed. Translated by Montgomery Belgion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Farley, Edward. Divine Empathy: A Theology of God. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996.

Fine, Reuben. The Meaning of Love in Human Experience. New York: Wiley, 1985.

Flint-Hamilton, K. "Images of Slavery in the Early Church: Hatred Disguised As Love?" Journal of Hate Studies 2, no. 1 (2003): 27-45.

Fromm, Erich. The Art of Loving. New York: Harper and Row, 1956.

Furnish, Victor Paul. The Love Command in the New Testament. Nashville: Abingdon, 1972.

________. The Love Command in the New Testament. Nashville: Abingdon, 1972.

Gilman, E. James. Fidelity of Heart: An Ethic of Christian Virtue. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Grant, Colin. Altruism & Christian Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

________. "For the Love of God: Agape." Journal of Religous Ethics 24, no. 1 (1996): 3-21.

Griffin, M. "De Beneficiis and Roman Society." Journal of Roman Studies 93, no. 2 (2003): 92-113.

Hazo, Robert G. The Idea of Love. New York: Praeger, 1967.

Heyward, Carter. Touching Our Strength: The Erotic As Power and the Love of God. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.

Hunt, Mary E. Fierce Tenderness: Toward a Feminist Theology of Friendship. New York: Seabury, 1987.

Irwin, Alexander C. Eros Toward the World. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1991.

Jackson, Timothy. Love Disconsoled. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Jeanrond, W. G. "Biblical Challenges to a Theology of Love." Biblical Interpretation 11, no. 3-4 (2003): 640-53.

Keating, J. F. The Agape in the New Testament. London: Methuen, 1901.

King, Martin Luther. Strength to Love. Cleveland: Collins World, 1963.

Lewis, C. S. The Four Loves. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1960.

Lewis, Thomas, Fari Amini and Richard Lannon. A General Theory of Love. New York: Random House, 2000.

Maas, Robin. Crucified Love. Nashville: Abingdon, 1989.

MacGregor, Geddes. He Who Lets Be: A Theology of Love. New York: Seabury, 1975.

Martin, Mike W. Love's Virtues. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996.

Meilaender, Gilbert. Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1981.

________. The Limits of Love: Some Theological Explorations. University Park: Pennsylvania State Press, 1987.

Moffatt, James. Love in the New Testament. New York: Richard R. Smith, 1930.

Mohler, James A. Dimensions of Love: East and West. New York: Doubleday, 1975.

Monroe, Kristen. The Heart of Altruism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Montagu, Ashley. The Meaning of Love. New York: Julian, 1953.

Newlands, George M. Theology of the Love of God. Atlanta: John Knox, 1980.

Niebuhr, Reinhold. Love and Justice. Edited by D. B. Robertson. Gloucester: Peter Smith, 1976.

Norton, David L. and Mary F. Kille. Philosophies of Love. Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1971.

Nussbaum, Martha. Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Nygren, Anders. Agape and Eros. London: SPCK, 1953.

________. Agape and Eros. Translated by Philip S. Watson. New York: Harper and Row, 1969.

Odent, Michel, Samuel P. Oliner, Lawrence Baron, Lawrence A. Blum, Dennis L. Krebs and M. Zuzanna Smolenska. Embracing the Other. New York: New York University Press, 1992.

Ogden, Schubert M. Love Unabounded: The Doctrine of God. Perkins School of Theology Journal.

Oord, Thomas Jay. "Agape, Atlruism, and Well-Being: Full-Orbed Love for the Science and Religion Dialogue." Contemporary Philosophy 25 (2002).

________. An Essentially Loving God. Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 2004.

________. "Love Archetypes and Moral Virtue." Comtemporary Philosophy 22, no. 1 & 2 (2000): 13-17.

Osborne, Catherine. Eros Unvieled. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

Outka, Gene. Agape: An Ethical Analysis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.

Peck, M. Scott. The Road Less Traveled. New York: Touchstone, 1978.

Peters, Ted. For the Love of Children. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1996.

Pinnock, Clark H. Flame of Love. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1996.

Pinnock, Clark H. and Robert C. Brow. Unbounded Love. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1994.

Polkinghorne, John. The Works of Love. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001.

Pope, Stephen. "Love in Contemporary Christian Ethics." Journal of Religious Ethics 23, no. 1 (1995): 167.

Pope, Stephen J. The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1994.

Post, Stephen G. Christian Love and Self-Denial: An Historical and Normative Study of Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Hopkins, and American Theological Ethics. New York: University Press of America, 1987.

________. "The Inadequacy of Selflessness: God's Suffering and the Theory of Love." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 50 (1988): 213-28.

________. More Lasting Unions: Christianity, the Family, and Society. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.

________. A Theory of Agape. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1990.

Post, Stephen G., Lynn G. Underwood, Jeffrey S. Schloss and Williams B. Hurlbutt. Altruism and Altruistic Love. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Rose, Hilary. Love, Power and Knowledge. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.

Sakenfeld, Katharine Doob. Faithfulness in Action. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.

Santurri, Edmund N. and William Werpehowski. The Love Commandments: Essays in Christian Ethics and Moral Philosophy. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.

Singer, Irving, The Nature of Love , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

________. The Pursuit of Love. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Smedes, Lewis B. Love Within Limits. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978.

Soble, Alan. Eros, Agape, and Philia. New York: Paragon, 1989.

________. The Structures of Love. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

Solomon, Robert C. and Kathleen M. Higgins. The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991.

Sorokin, Pitirim. The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation. Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation, 2002.

Stone, Bryan and Thomas Jay Oord. Thy Nature and Thy Name Is Love. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 2001.

Taylor, Mark Lloyd. God Is Love. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1986.

Templeton, John. Agape Love: A Tradition Found in Eight World Religions. Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 1999.

________. Pure Unlimited Love. Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 2000.

Tillich, Paul. Love, Power, and Justice: Ontological Analyses and Ethical Applications. New York: Oxford University Press, 1963.

Vacek, Edward. "Love, Christian and Diverse." Journal of Religious Ethics 24, no. 1 (1996): 29-41.

Vacek, Edward Collins. Love, Human and Divine: The Heart of Christian Ethics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1994.

Vanhoozer, Kevin. Nothing Greater, Nothing Better. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001.

Vanstone, W. H. The Risk of Love. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Wagoner, Robert E. The Meanings of Love. London: Praeger, 1997.

Walsh, Anthony. The Science of Love. New York: Prometheus, 1991.

Will, James E. The Universal God: Justice, Love, and Peace in the Global Village. Louisville: John Knox Press, 1994.

Williams, Daniel Day. The Spirit and the Forms of Love. New York: Harper and Row, 1968.

Wilson, John. Love Between Equals: A Philosophical Study of Love and Sexual Relationships. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

 

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