Author: Edmund N. Santurri

The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a moral agent’s life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or ba …

This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians and ethicists on the …

Contents Introduction ix Gene Outka Universal Love and Impartiality 1 Edmund N. Santurri Who Is My Neighbor? Love, Equality, and Profoundly Retarded Humans 104 William Werpehowski ‘Agape’ and Special …

Consider the following situation: a mayor is holding captive the leader of a terrorist group that has placed bombs throughout the city. It is determined that the only way to get the terrorist to conf …

At the heart of Christian ethics is the biblical commandment to love God and to love one’s neighbor as oneself. But what is the meaning of love? Scholars have wrestled with this question since the re …