Agape and Hesed-Ahava. David L. Goicoechea
II, 5 What it Means that Love as Pure Giving is Impossible
II, 5.1 Jewish Altruism seeks to give the Pure Gift
II, 5.2 Which can be Traumatic and Joyful Folly at Once
II, 5.3 The Pure Gift of Giving our Time is Impossible
II, 5.4 As is the Pure Gift of Giving our Life
II, 5.5 As is the Pure Gift of Giving our Death
II, 5.6 How Derrida does not Catch Up with Kierkegaard
II, 5.7 And How Levinas Deconstructs Derrida
II, 5.8 With a Justice of the Third Beyond Deconstructive Justice
II, 5.9 So that the Impossible Pure Giving is not Necessary
II, 6 How Kierkegaard might Deconstruct Derrida
II, 6.1 Who Deconstructs him by Ignoring Agape
II, 6.2 Which Hates Preferential Love
II, 6.3 In Order to Absolutely Love the Absolute
II, 6.4 And then Relatively Love the Relative
II, 6.5 That he Loves a Self-Love that is not Pure
II, 6.6 In Primarily Loving all Others and Secondarily his Own
II, 6.7 Because Unlike Abraham God did Sacrifice his Son
II, 6.8 Out of Love for Us
II, 6.9 Which Gives us a Pure Love that is Possible
II, 7 Derrida’s Praeparatio Evangelica
II, 7.1 With a Messianicity without the Messiah
II, 7.2 With a Responsibility without Celibacy
II, 7.3 With a Postmodernity without Modernity
II, 7.4 With a Spirituality without Organized Religion
II, 7.5 With a Logic of Mixed Opposites without Exclusive Opposites
II, 7.6 With the Sacrifice of Economy without Heavenly Reward
II, 7.7 With a Just War Politics without Non-Resistance
II, 7.8 With a Psychology of Loving ours Without Loving All
II, 7.9 With a Metaphysical Rescue of my Cat but not all Flesh
II, 8 Levinas’ Praeparatio Evangelica
II, 8.1 With the Third Without the Trinity
II, 8.2 With the Wisdom of Love Without The Love of Wisdom
II, 8.3 With a Postmodernity Without Modernity
II, 8.4 With a Holiness Without the Sacred
II, 8.5 With an Ethics Without Ontology
II, 8.6 With an Authority Without Force
II, 8.7 With a Peace Without Price
II, 8.8 With a Manifestation of Infinity Without Manifestation
II, 8.9 With a Transcendence Without Imminence
II, 9 Levinas and Derrida Enlighten Us Concerning Agape
II, 9.1 For Levinas Loves the Jewish Love of Hesed and Ahava
II, 9.2 And Expresses its Beauty, Goodness, Truth and Holiness.
II, 9.3 And Derrida’s Aporia Reveals the Mystery of Revelation.
II, 9.4 And Redoes the Approach to Western Philosophy.
II, 9.5 So even though Derrida and Levinas have a Messianicity.
II, 9.6 Without Jesus, the Messiah, and his Agape.
II, 9.7 Their Hesed and Ahava Prepares for that Agape.
II, 9.8 So that God can be Agapeic Hesed and Ahava.
II, 9.9 And we can have Gratitude for the Salvation of All.
III, 1 Glueck’s Treatment of Hesed as Mutual Love
III, 1.1 Hesed as Secular, Religious and Divine Conduct
III, 1.2 A Secular Covenant Bond with Lasting Loyalty
III, 1.3 A Religious Bond with Justice and Law
III, 1.4 Hesed as Divine Conduct with Nine New Traits
III, 1.5 The Hesed of the David Promise
III, 1.6 The Trusting Faith and Mercy of Davidic Hesed
III, 1.7 And Its Peace for those who Fear the Lord
III, 1.8 God’s Hesed gives the Hasadim Knowledge and Confidence
III, 1.9 For Even though He Punishes there is Salvation
III, 2 Correcting Glueck’s Understanding of Hesed
III, 2.1 Masing Rejects the Pattern of Mutual Reciprocity
III, 2.2 Masing Rejects Glueck’s Universal Hesed
III, 2.3 Masing Questions the Idea of a Davidic Covenant
III, 2.4 Hills Shows how Hesed is Done by the Superior Party
III, 2.5 And is Distinct from Judicial or Legal Action
III, 2.6 Hesed is Action with Special Moral Qualities
III, 2.7 Hills Shows how Hesed Responds to an Essential Need
III, 2.8 Hill’s Hesed has its Source in God
III, 2.9 Stoebe Claims that Hesed was Introduced by J
III, 3 Sakenfeld Doob Sakenfeld’s Treatment of Hesed
III, 3.1 Also Studies “Secular”, “Theological” and “Religious” Usages
III, 3.2 The Primacy of the Theological Davidic Hesed
III, 3.3 Does God’s Revelation of Hesed Prepare for the Secular?
III, 3.4 Does Theological Hesed Support Religious Hesed?
III, 3.5 The Modification of Hesed in Religious Usage
III, 3.6 Hesed is Primarily not Covenantal
III, 3.7 Hesed is Primarily not Reciprocal
III, 3.8 Hesed is Primarily not Related to Justice
III, 3.9 Hesed is like a Mother’s Love for her Child
III, 4 The Ahava of the Shema
III, 4.1 What is this Ahava with which we should Love Yahweh?
III, 4.2 It is Related to Fifteen Kinds of Ahava
III, 4.3 Wallis Explains the Secular Uses of Ahava
III, 4.4 And the Theological Uses
III, 4.5 The Deuteronomist and God’s Ahava for Israel
III, 4.6 Which should be Reciprocated by Isreal’s Ahava
III, 4.7 So all Fifteen Dimensions of Ahava are Commanded
III, 4.8 And can be Learned by Attentive Listening
III, 4.9 Which Ponders God’s Ahava always in the Heart
III, 5 The Command of Ahava for One’s Neighbor
III, 5.1 Jews are Commanded to Love One’s Neighbor
III, 5.2 And this is the Source of Jewish Ethics
III, 5.3 Together with Hesed as the Other Source
III, 5.4 The Prophet’s Ethical Criticism of the Cult
III, 5.5 Shows how Hard it is to Love Others Equally
III, 5.6 But that is what True Ethical Altruism Demands
III, 5.7 And to have Ahava for the Stranger as for Oneself
III, 5.8 And Ahava for the Enemy as Oneself