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- Title
RAIN ON THE JUST AND THE UNJUST: THE CHALLENGE OF INDISCRIMINATE DIVINE LOVE.
- Authors
Herdt, Jennifer A.
- Abstract
Hearers of the Sermon on the Mount are called to become children of their heavenly father by loving as God loves. Surprisingly, though, God's love is depicted here as impersonal and indiscriminate, as similar to or even simply as a force of nature, even if a life-giving force: God 'makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust' (Matthew 5:45). Anders Nygren used this verse as core support for his dubious characterization of agape as 'indifferent to value'. How should we hear it today?
- Subjects
AGAPE; LOVE in Christianity; JUSTICE; CHRISTIAN ethics; SERMON on the mount
- Publication
Studies in Christian Ethics, 2009, Vol 22, Issue 1, p34
- ISSN
0953-9468
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0953946808100225