Levering, Matthew  1971- <br/><br/>
The Betrayal of Charity  The sins that sabotage divine love 
Matthew Levering 
 - U.S.A.  Baylor University Press  2011 
 - 219tr.  Paperback, illustrations  23cm 
<br/><br/> Love was at one time a powerfully unifying force among Christians. In his letters, Paul consistently evokes charity as the avenue to both human and divine communion. If the magnitude of charity was of the upmost importance to early Christians, so were those sins that aimed to distract Christians from acting based on love. Taking seriously the efforts of Paul, and later Thomas Aquinas, to expose and root out the sins against charity, Matthew Levering reclaims the centrality of love for moral, and in fact all, theology. As Levering argues, the practice of charity leads to inner joy. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781602583566 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Religion -- Christian -- Theology -- Ethics<br/>Sin -- Christianity<br/>Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Ethics
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>241.677  / M437-L66