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Christian Socialism

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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The Kind of Love That Jesus Calls Us to Is Not Some Kind of Abstraction

i think it's really important to say that, like the example and the life of jesus, show us that he is not an abstraction. He calls us to a form of love that is thoroughly engaged, thoroughly material has profound social and material implications. To free those who are oppressing is also a kind of political love that makes sense. And his struggle against oppressors is not motivated out of hatred, right, or ambition. In fact, the act of freeing oppressors from their power to oppress is itself an act of love, the kind that jesus calls us to. It is such a political death, that that he goes to the cross committed to this radical, liber

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