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The Argument from love is an argument for the existence of God. ==Arguments from love to the existence of God== Tom Wright suggests that materialist philosophy and scepticism has "paved our world with concrete, making people ashamed to admit that they have had profound and powerful 'religious' experiences".〔Tom Wright ''Simply Christian'' p 16〕 The reality of Love in particular ("that mutual and fruitful knowing, trusting and loving which was the creator's intention" but which "we often find so difficult") and the whole area of human relationships in general, are another signpost pointing away from this philosophy to the central elements of the Christian story.〔Tom Wright ''Simply Christian'' pp 25–33〕 Wright contends ''both'' that the real existence of love is a compelling reason for the truth of theism ''and'' that the ambivalent experience of love, ("marriages apparently made in heaven sometimes end not far from hell") resonates particularly with the Christian account of fall and redemption.〔Tom Wright ''Simply Christian'' p 33〕 Paul Tillich suggested (in 1954) even Spinoza "elevates love out of the emotional into the ontological realm. And it is well known that from Empedocles and Plato to Augustine and Pico, to Hegel and Schelling, to Existentialism and depth psychology, love has played a central ontological role."〔Paul Tillich ''Love, Power and Justice'' Oxford University Press 1954 p4〕 and that "love is being in actuality and love is the moving power of life"〔Paul Tillich, ''Love, Power and Justice'', Oxford University Press, 1954, p25〕 and that an understanding of this should lead us to "turn from the naive nominalism in which the modern world lives".〔Paul Tillich, ''Love, Power and Justice'', Oxford University Press, 1954, p19〕 The theologian Michael Lloyd suggests that "In the end there are basically only two possible sets of views about the universe in which we live. It must, at heart, be either personal or impersonal... arbitrary and temporary〔Lloyd cites Quentin Smith〕 (emerging ) from relationship, creativity, delight, love".〔Michael Lloyd ''Cafe Theology'' (2005) ISBN 1-904074-76-6 p 14〕 Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft summarises the argument as "Love is the greatest of miracles. How could an evolved ape create the noble idea of self-giving love? Human love is a result of our being made to resemble God, who himself is love. If we are made in the image of King Kong rather than in the image of King God, where do the saints come from?"〔Peter Kreeft, ''(Your Questions, God's Answers )'', Ignatius Press, 1994, ISBN 0-89870-488-X, p. 105.〕 Philosopher Alvin Plantinga expressed the argument in similar terms.〔Alvin Plantinga (1986), “Two Dozen (so ) Theistic Arguments,” paper delivered at the 33rd Annual Philosophy Conference, Wheaton College, 23-25 Oct. and republished as an appendix to: Deane-Peter Baker (2007), ''Alvin Plantinga'', Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-85531-4.〕 According to Graham Ward, postmodern theology portrays how religious questions are opened up (not closed down or annihilated) by postmodern thought. The postmodern God is emphatically the God of love, and the economy of love is kenotic.〔''The Modern Theologians'' 3rd ed p 335〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Argument from love」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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