..., or deeply concerned with the promotion of human flourishing, including enemy flourishing. This leads to a theological examination of enemy love and to a distinction between moral and nonmoral evil. Botticelli Sandro Lewis C S love passim esp Venus and Mars painting Christian realism just war Aquinas...

.... It also analyzes the Christian tradition that Stephen was perfected through his dying forgiveness prayer. This distinctive prayer proved more radical than Gospel teaching on enemy love since the plea for forgiveness of undeserving persecutors, more so than the enemy love exhortation, posed a challenge...

... comes close to advocating an ethic of ‘enemy love’. Klauck H ‐J Long A A Millar F Weaver P R C NON‐CHRISTIAN GREEK AND LATIN LITERATURE Domitian Epaphroditus Nero Suetonius Tacitus Brunt P A Gill C Noy D Oldfather W A Sherwin‐White A N Starr C G Jr Hadrian Braund S M Martin J M K...

.... They are potentially more radical than Gospel teaching on enemy love, as Tertullian would have recognized, since the plea for forgiveness of undeserving persecutors, more so than enemy love, challenged the framework of cosmic justice, as Marcion would have affirmed. The prayer was frequently read intransitively...

...; Augustine’s correspondence with Boniface, an army commander, on the conflicting goods of enemy love and military security; and Augustine’s advice to Macedonius, imperial vicar of Africa, on whether pardoning a criminal condemned to capital punishment is consistent with protecting the common good. It also...