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Cross-cultural Dialogue on the VirtuesLove as the Ultimate Virtue

Cross-cultural Dialogue on the Virtues: Love as the Ultimate Virtue [The chapter argues that the ethic of love is the inner core of the Hizmet movement which shapes its understanding and practicing of all the moral and intellectual virtues. Drawing on a comparison with the hospitality focused ethic of the community of Le Chambon, France during World War II, the chapter explores how the Hizmet movement developed a religiously inspired ethical orientation emphasizing communitarian service to others, both locally and internationally. In both communities, Christian and Islamic understandings of the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity (love) shaped the call to respond hospitably to persons in need of assistance. The Hizmet movement’s cosmopolitan service ethic is fundamentally shaped by a Sufi understanding of the love of God as manifest through humanitarian service to others. Interactions with members of the Hizmet movement disclose the movement as fundamentally a faith-inspired philanthropic service movement. The chapter ends by addressing three current challenges which must be addressed in ways consistent with the virtue orientation of the Hizmet movement.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Cross-cultural Dialogue on the VirtuesLove as the Ultimate Virtue

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2014
ISBN
978-3-319-07832-8
Pages
107 –123
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-07833-5_8
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[The chapter argues that the ethic of love is the inner core of the Hizmet movement which shapes its understanding and practicing of all the moral and intellectual virtues. Drawing on a comparison with the hospitality focused ethic of the community of Le Chambon, France during World War II, the chapter explores how the Hizmet movement developed a religiously inspired ethical orientation emphasizing communitarian service to others, both locally and internationally. In both communities, Christian and Islamic understandings of the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity (love) shaped the call to respond hospitably to persons in need of assistance. The Hizmet movement’s cosmopolitan service ethic is fundamentally shaped by a Sufi understanding of the love of God as manifest through humanitarian service to others. Interactions with members of the Hizmet movement disclose the movement as fundamentally a faith-inspired philanthropic service movement. The chapter ends by addressing three current challenges which must be addressed in ways consistent with the virtue orientation of the Hizmet movement.]

Published: Jul 11, 2014

Keywords: Hizmet movement; Islam; Sufism; Love/charity; Le Chambon; Aquinas’ order of love; Cosmopolitanism; Humanitarian service; Moderate Islam; Integrity; Hospitality; Hope

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