Epstein Secrets

did Nygren oppose the caritas view of Christian love? The answer is that the meaning of love as caritas did exactly what Nygren thought Paul and Luther, his theological heroes, did not do. In the classic Roman Catholic view, love as caritas builds on eros. Caritas was seen to include natural desi

dominant modern image of humans summarized by the phrase "what is best for me is best for the society." Without rejecting the selfish gene view, Cacioppo shows how it evolves in humans into what he calls the "social brain"— a large cerebral cortex and an interconnected limbic lobule that together a

Aquinas, Summo Contra Gentiles, Book Two: Creation, chapters 31-38, pp. 91-115. See, for example, Martin Luther, Lectures on Galatians (1535), in Luther's Works, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan (St Louis, Missouri: Concordia Publishing House, 1964), vols. 26-27. Thomas Aquinas again provides a clear theologi

oration for mutual benefit is part of human nature or whether promotion of the self above all others is man's primary motivation. In this volume, Cacioppo argues that sociality is an integral part of human nature. He notes that given each child's prolonged period of total dependence, survival into ch

279 did Nygren oppose the caritas view of Christian love? The answer is that the meaning of love as caritas did exactly what Nygren thought Paul and Luther, his theological heroes, did not do. In the classic Roman Catholic view, love as caritas builds on eros. Caritas was seen to include natural desires

ce a dominant modern image of humans summarized by the phrase “what is best for me is best for the society.” Without rejecting the selfish gene view, Cacioppo shows how it evolves in humans into what he calls the “social brain’— a large cerebral cortex and an interconnected limbic lobule that together are s

Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, Book Two: Creation, chapters 31-38, pp. 91-115. ‘ See, for example, Martin Luther, Lectures on Galatians (1535), in Luther’s Works, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan (St Louis, Missouri: Concordia Publishing House, 1964), vols. 26-27. * Thomas Aquinas again provides a clear theologic

llaboration for mutual benefit is part of human nature or whether promotion of the self above all others is man’s primary motivation. In this volume, Cacioppo argues that sociality is an integral part of human nature. He notes that given each child’s prolonged period of total dependence, survival into child