The Science and Theology of Godly Love

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CONTENTS Introduction 3 MATThEW T. LEE, MARGARET M. PoLoMA, AND STEPhEN G. PoST PA R T I — T h E o L o G Y A N D G o D LY L o V E One Godly Love Why We Cannot Endure without It 17 STEPhEN G. PoST Two Agape, Self-Sacrifice, and Mutuality An Exploration into the Thought of Jonathan Edwards and the Theme of Godly Love 33 MIChAEL J. McCLYMoND Three Imago Dei and Kenosis Contributions of Christology to the Study of Godly Love 56 PETER ALThoUSE Four Violence and Nonviolence in Conceptualizations of Godly Love 77 PAUL ALExANDER Five Testing Creaturely Love and God’s Causal Role 94 ThoMAS JAY ooRD vi Contents PA R T I I — S o C I A L S C I E N C E A N D G o D LY L o V E Six Methodological Agnosticism for the Social Sciences? Lessons from Sorokin’s and James’s Allusions to Psychoanalysis, Mysticism, and Godly Love 121 RALPh W. hooD JR. Seven Godly Love from the Perspective of Psychology 141 JULIE J. ExLINE Eight Sociology, Philosophy, and the Empirical Study of Godly Love 157 MARGARET M. PoLoMA Nine Socialization, Empirical Studies, and Godly Love A Case Study in Survey Research 183 MARK J. CARTLEDGE Ten Toward a Grounded Theory of Godly Love Latino/a Pentecostals 200 ARLENE SáNChEz WALSh Conclusion 217 AMoS YoNG Contributors 233 Index 235 The Scienceand Theologyof GodlyLove ...