Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch

In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, ''selfless love'' can appear as a threat to the lover''s personal well-being. This perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it and therefore calls for a theological response. In conversation with the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich and the atheistic moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, Selfless Love ...