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The changing face of friendship / edited by Leroy S. Rouner. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1994. - xviii, 219 p. ; 24 cm. - Boston University studies in philosophy and religion ; v. 15 . - Boston University studies in philosophy and religion ; v. 15. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

On creative friendship / Eliot Deutsch -- Open friendship : Aristotelian and christian concepts of friendship / Jurgen Moltmann -- Friendship and God in al-Ghazali and Aquinas / David B. Burrell -- Two perspectives on friendship : Aristotle and Nietzsche / John E. Smith -- Confucian friendship : the road to religiousness / David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames -- An Indian view of friendship / Bhikhu Parekh -- Predatory friendship : evidence from medieval Norman histories / Emily Albu Hanawalt -- My friend Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology of friendship / Eberhard Bethge -- Friendship and enmity among nations / Ninian Smart -- Friends and family values : a new old song / Mary E. Hunt -- When Harry and Sally read the Nicomachean Ethics : friendship between men and women / Gilbert Meilaender -- Political friendship / Michael Pakaluk.

"The twelve essays in this volume, written by some of the foremost experts in the fields of philosophy and theology, clarify what it means to be a friend, helping to restore talk about friendship to our common conversation." --Book Jacket.

ISBN: 0268008043 (alk. paper) 9780268008048 (alk. paper) 0268023573 9780268023577

LCCN: 94015462

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Friendship.
Friendship--Religious aspects.
Friendship - Philosophies of
Friendship - Social relation

LC Class. No.: BJ1533.F8 / C44 1994

Dewey Class. No.: 177.62 ROUC