The Betrayal of Charity <subTitle>The sins that sabotage divine love</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Levering, Matthew</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">1971-</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">4:1</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Baylor University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2011</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>219tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback, illustrations</extent> <extent>23cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>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.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Matthew Levering</note> <subject> <topic>Religion -- Christian -- Theology -- Ethics</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Sin -- Christianity</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Ethics</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">241.677</classification> <classification authority="ddc">M437-L66</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9781602583566</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/12882/b.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/12882/b.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-1</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071203.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>