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A Study on the Discourse of ‘Self-love’ in Contemporary Christian Ethics

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2013, (25), pp.121~164
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

Lee, Chang-Ho 1

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ABSTRACT

Is self-love a Christian love? Is ‘loving self’ a proper religious and moral obligation which Christian faith can justify? The aim of this paper is to explore the discourse of ‘self-love’ in contemporary Christian ethics. In doing so, I will examine several leading views of self-love and their justifiability in Christian ethical terms. Three questions inform my inquiry in this paper: 1) the relationship between self-love and normative definition of Christian love; 2) the continuity and discontinuity between God’s and love of self; and 3) the so-called self-other relation. Although many scholars have addressed these questions, I will highlight four major approaches to this inquiry. This paper treats the views of four authors – Anders Nygren, Garth Hallett, Edward Vacek, Gene Outka - whose positions fall on a continuum from least permissive(Nygren) to most permissive(Vacek). I will examine each of these authors in turn and identify their contributions and weaknesses and compare these four authors, highlighting similarities and differences among them. I conclude with some ethical suggestions which can contribute to enriching Korean Christians’ life of love in terms of self-love.

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