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Published on: 2012-12-08
Released on: 2012-12-08
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For the Love of God: Comparative Religious Motivations for Giving explores donors and their motivations – altruistic love, social glory, duty, gratitude, stewardship or investment in one's future credits. This book leaves aside the setting of standards for the recognized needs of the recipients of aid and the duties of society to the poor and their rights in order to focus on the feelings, values and sense of self of the giver.After reviewing the common opposition of Maimonidean Judaism and Pauline Christianity to Greek philanthropy, the book concentrates on the diverging religious narratives of charity vs. tzedakah, mercy vs. justice and altruism vs. self-centeredness, love of the enemy vs. love of the family, love of the sinner vs. love of "one's brother in mitzvot." A subtitle for this book might have been: “All You Need is Love” - Loving Kindness (Hesed) and Christian Charity. Not coincidentally all three of the cultural terms to be compared – Greek philanthropia, Biblical and Rabbinic Hesed, and Christian agape or caritas (charity) - are associated etymologically with love. Rabbinic Judaism is not merely about the just and dutiful giver. It too promotes love's relationship to generosity (gemillut hasadim) and its own ideal religious hero of lovingkindness – the hasid. However when it comes to making a donation to the needy, the great monotheistic traditions share not only a concern for love of God and love of the poor, but also for giving to the other as a practice of self-serving prudence. All religious preachers appeal to self-interest and utilize economic metaphors such as banking to show that every coin given away is actually credited to one's heavenly bank account. The idea of the medieval indulgences so vilified by Protestants is found in all religious traditions since the Book of Proverbs and its perennial appeal deserves serious consideration, just as tax breaks for philanthropists plays an important role in how much and to whom and when some of them give.Part One: Diverging Narratives: "Who is my Neighbor” Greek Citizens, Christian Sinners or Rabbinic Brothers Chapter #1 – Excluding or Including the PoorGreco-Roman Stratification or Christian Spiritual BrotherhoodThe God of the Poor: Christian Incarnation and Rabbinic AnthropomorphismChapter # 2 – Christian Altruism and the Good Samaritan: "Who is my Neighbor, Rabbi" (Luke 10:29)Chapter #3 – The Rabbis on "Love your Neighbor" (Leviticus 19:17): Neighbors as Covenantal BrothersChapter #4 – Rabbinic Priorities: "Me and My Family First!"Part Two: Diverging Narratives of Giving: Love or DutyChapter #5 – Paul’s Self-Sacrificial Agape and Martin Luther's Love as Service to One’s Neighbor Chapter #6 – Paul versus Maimonides: Loving Giver or Dutiful DonorRenewing the Disputation between Love and Justice Part Three: Converging Tales of Calculating Charity and Prudent TzedakahEconomic Metaphors for Managing Funds for the NeedyChapter #7 – Banking with God: Giving and the Salvation of the Donor/InvestorChapter #8 – Stewardship and Sharing the Surplus Chapter #9 – The Reciprocity of Hesed: Giving and Being For-Given, Showing Human Mercy and Evoking Divine Mercy Part Four: The Character Traits of the Giver:Maimonides on Lovingkindness (Hesed) Chapter #10 – The Emotional Component of Tzedakah: Beyond Anonymity and Duty, Towards RelationshipChapter #11 –The Piety of Giving: The Generosity of the HasidChapter #12 –From Love of God to Love of Humanity: Maimonides’ Shift from Theology to Politics and Ethics in The Guide to the Perplexed Chapter #13 - Types of Giving in Review: Touching the Emotional Bases
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