{"id":4255,"date":"2020-02-23T19:33:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T19:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejosias.net\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2020-02-23T19:34:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T19:34:25","slug":"the-josias-podcast-episode-xxii-love-hope-and-integralism-in-the-new-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejosias.net\/2020\/02\/23\/the-josias-podcast-episode-xxii-love-hope-and-integralism-in-the-new-testament\/","title":{"rendered":"The Josias Podcast, Episode XXII: Love, Hope, and Integralism in the New Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The encyclicals Deus caritas est <\/em>and Spe salvi <\/em>raise two opposite objections against Christianity: \u00a0Christian love seems too altruistic<\/em>, opposed to one’s own happiness; while \u00a0Christian hope seems too egoistic, <\/em>opposed to proper concern for temporal society. The editors discuss these objections with New Testament scholar John Kincaid. They argue that a true understanding of the New Testament demands a full understanding of the common good (showing that love is neither altruism nor egoism, but communion in the good), and a deep understanding of the relation of the temporal and the eternal (showing that hope for \u00a0eternal happiness and peace does not make us indifferent to the temporal happiness and peace, which are a participated likeness of the eternal). Integralism provides precisely the account of the common good, and of the relation of temporal and eternal that is necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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