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.
Summary
"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."--Jacket.