Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1. The Nature of the Quest -- 1. The Primacy of Love -- 2. The Economies of Knowledge and Love in Paul -- 3. Love, This Lenient Interpreter: On the Complexity of a Life -- PART 2. Justice -- 4. A Love as Strong as Death: Ricoeur's Reading of the Song of Songs -- 5. Paul Ricoeur and the Possibility of Just Love -- 6. Why There Is No Either/Or in Works of Love:A Kantian Defense of Kierkegaardian (Christian) Unconditional Love -- 7. Living by Love: A Quasi-Apostolic carte postale on Love in Itself,If There Is Such a Thing -- PART 3. The Sacred -- 8. A Love that B(l)inds: Reflections on an Agapic Agnosticism -- 9. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder -- 10. Creatio Ex Amore -- 11. Militant Love: Zizek and the Christian Legacy -- 12. Love as a Declaration of War? On the Absolute Character ofLove in Jean-Luc Marion's Phenomenology of Eros -- PART 4. Rethinking Humanity -- 13. Liberating Love's Capabilities: On the Wisdom of Love -- 14. The Genesis of Love: An Irigarayan Reading -- 15. You'd Better Find Somebody to Love:Toward a Kierkegaardian Bioethic -- List of Contributors -- Index.