Just a really exceptional look at sacrifice and how sacrifice--radical sacrifice--can help explain and explore a whole series of ways we need to be living an ethical life. Eagleton's sources that he draws on to lay out arguments around sacrifice, and examples he uses to discuss them, are expansive but he manages to make most of them approachable in breaking down their arguments and I really felt like I understood many of his points, and that they were in fact highly clarifying in a larger sense. The part about forgiveness in particular struck me as deeply useful as a place for jumping off to more thinking and discussion, though so much else also was really useful and clarifying for me. (I will also say that his explanation of original sin is also more approachable and compelling than any I've heard or read before!)

I'm walking away from this wanting both to reread this (with my own, non-library copy so I can write in it properly,) and wanting to read like everything Eagleton has written ever, so that's a big endorsement in and of itself. Both accessible and thought provoking! Ideal! ( )