Frederick Bauerschmidt, The Love That Is God

1.)Why is friendship with Jesus “still possible” (44)?

2.)What is the work of the “Spirit of wisdom”?

3.)According to Aristotle, what is friendship? What are its three main forms, and what is its “truest and most enduring form” (48)?

4.)Why is choosing your friends “one of the most important, and perilous, moral choices you make” (49)?

5.)Describe the “elements” of Christian friendship that don’t “fit easily” into Aristotle’s account of friendship.

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