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Chapter 7 - Adjudication of Last Resort

To Love as Christ Loves

from Part II - How and Why Agape-Justice Conflicts Arise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2023

Albino Barrera
Albino Barrera
Affiliation:
Providence College, Rhode Island
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Summary

Agape-justice conflicts provide unique opportunities for growth in supernatural excellence. There are “no tidy answers” in sorting through competing duties of justice and agape. However, justice’s obligees who hold strong legal and moral claims can voluntarily and generously choose to forego their claim-rights in favor of those who have none—agape’s beneficiaries. If we can give of ourselves with alacrity, then, even the most intractable agape-justice conflicts can be resolved with the adjudication of last resort—to love as Christ loves. Doing so leads to growth in Christified agape, that is, caritas. Such self-giving dissolves the competing claims of agape and justice.

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Christ’s loveChristified agapecaritaskenosisforegone claimsself-sacrificebeneficencejusticesupererogationsupernatural excellence
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Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics , pp. 214 - 247
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Adjudication of Last Resort
  • Albino Barrera, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book: Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics
  • Online publication: 19 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009384667.011
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  • Albino Barrera, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book: Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009384667.011
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  • Adjudication of Last Resort
  • Albino Barrera, Providence College, Rhode Island
  • Book: Compassion-Justice Conflicts and Christian Ethics
  • Online publication: 19 October 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009384667.011
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