Love of Friendship in the Christian Life
By Jonathan Sammut and Nadia Delicata
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After a philosophical-historical study of the Greco-Roman roots of friendship in moral reflection, and how (and to what extent) this was appropriated in the Christian tradition, this book illustrates the transcendental character and the novelty of the Christian understanding of friendship found in Holy Scripture, focusing particularly on the most relevant texts in the Fourth Gospel where "love" and "friendship" stand to be important themes. It also shows how Saint Thomas Aquinas, through his exegesis of the Fourth Gospel, his synthesis of the Christian tradition, and his ability to rearticulate Christian theology through Aristotelian philosophy, inimitably defines the theological virtue of caritas as "friendship with God." In so doing he depicts friendship as the finality, the telos, of the Christian life. Finally, the book aims to show how the retrieval of a proper theology of friendship, rooted in Holy Scripture and Christian tradition, can enrich the life of an authentic Christian and contribute to the ongoing process of renewing moral theology.
Jonathan Sammut
Jonathan Sammut is a member of the Society of Christian Doctrine, founded in 1907 by Saint George Preca in Malta as a lifestyle for laity. He has been awarded a master's in theology from the University of Malta in 2016 and continued his theological studies at the University of Notre Dame. He published three articles on the subject of Christian friendship in The Church Life Journal, a journal of the McGrath Institute for Church Life.
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