Unity and the Holy Spirit investigates the work of the Holy Spirit in
the world (as distinct from the church). John E. Hare proposes that
the Spirit aims at unity of four different kinds: unity between us and
the material world, unity within us, unity between us and others, and
unity between us and God. The book proceeds by discussing one example
of each of these kinds of unity. The example of the first is our
experience of the beautiful and the sublime, examining Kant's account
of these experiences with two pieces by Beethoven used as
illustrations. The example of the second is gender transition, taking
as a case a life assigned female at birth. Patriotism provides the
third example, and the discussion examines the relation of a limited
patriotism to the ideal of cosmopolitanism. The fourth example is
contemplation; the discussion looks at different conceptions of this
practice, starting with Aristotle. The final chapter collects together
these examples, and asks what unity is in itself, starting again with
Aristotle. In each case, emphasis is placed on what is contributed to
our understanding by invoking the work of the Holy Spirit. The book
ends by asking why the Spirit aims at unity, and the answer is that
the Spirit loves. This book completes a trilogy of works on ethical
theory and the doctrine of the Trinity, following The Moral Gap (OUP,
1996), about the work of the Second Person, and God's Command (OUP,
2015), about the work of the First.
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ISBN
9780192890863
Publisert
2022
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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