Download PDF: Howard, Nonviolence as Love in Action Abstract This article expands on the existing scholarship on the Reverend James M. Lawson’s philosophy of nonviolent direct action, which he situated in the Christian lexicon and Jesus’ model of love. More
Download PDF: Eddy, Love Outside the Walls Abstract Richard Rorty, in Achieving Our Country (1998), predicted the rise of a Donald Trump-like figure. Rorty’s humanistic allegiance to James Baldwin’s vision of love as a cure for the current political ills
Download PDF: Ott Marshall, Course Correction Abstract This article utilizes current research to reflect critically on earlier writing that privileged the capacity for love to discipline anger. Contemporary maternal activists demonstrate how love fuels social action when it cooperates with
Download PDF: Grumett, Hannah Arendt’s Augustinian Politics Abstract The impact of Augustine’s concept of love on Hannah Arendt is typically unacknowledged but illuminates and nuances her political thought. Arendt’s critique of consumer society is grounded in an Augustinian analysis of
Download PDF: Greenstein, A Story of Love and Shame and Love Abstract The search for love can be a constructive hermeneutic force in reading sacred texts. The Zohar, the central text of the Jewish mystical tradition, applies such an approach