Agape and the Four Loves with Nietzsche, Father, and Q
Overview
Goicoechea explains Nietzsche’s thesis that the agapeic love of Jesus is humankind’s highest affirmation. Prior to Q scholars—the researchers who study and attempt to reconstruct the supposed source of the content common to Matthew and Luke, but not present in Mark—Nietzsche saw this love as the essence of the Sermon on the Mount and based his philosophy upon it. Throughout the Catholic tradition agape fulfilled the affection of Empedocles, the eros of Plato, the friendship of Aristotle, and the agape of Plotinus. While, as Anders Nygren shows, modernists protested such syntheses, now postmodernists once again let agape and the four loves contribute to one another.
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- Title: Agape and the Four Loves with Nietzsche, Father, and Q
- Author: David L. Goicoechea
- Series: Postmodern Ethics Series
- Volume: 2
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 382
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900; Q hypothesis (Synoptics criticism); Fatherhood; Reconciliation › Religious aspects
- ISBNs: 9781620321539, 9781498263726, 9781621897415, 162032153X, 1498263720, 1621897419
- Resource ID: LLS:GPFRLVSNTZSCHFT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:53:55Z
Reviews
1 rating
J. Remington Bowling
1/10/2015
This book does a horrible job at communicating. Take the following excerpt for example: "Daddy loved his wife and women with an agapeic eros like that of Jesus as he loved the women who loved him and bridegroom mysticism is a phenomenon of sublimated eros that can give dynamic energy to any who are associated with the mystic. Catholic agapeic eros can be felt especially at the sacrifice of the Mass when the power of the celibate priest brings the body and blood of the God-man into the bread and wine so that the real presence of Jesus is there with a presence to believing love that was somewhat like the presence of daddy’s absent-present father." Goicoechea, D. L. (2013). Agape and the Four Loves with Nietzsche, Father, and Q. (M. Zlomislić, Ed.) (Vol. 2, p. 5). Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications. The author nowhere lays out what he means by "agapeic" or "eros" or "agapeic eros" or "sublimated eros" etc. etc. The author only seems to be interested in communicating with himself and whoever else might be within his circle of sublimated agapeic eros mysticism... whatever that is.