Why Does Friendship Matter?:
Chris Firestone,
Alexander H. Pierce
Lexham Press
How you can make the best of your friendships.
In a world where making friends—and unfriending—can be done with a click, is friendship the most disposable relationship? Or is it an underappreciated treasure? How should you think about your friends?
In Why Does Friendship Matter?, Chris L. Firestone and Alex H. Pierce consider the profits and perils of friendship. Everyone needs friends. Friends help us navigate and enjoy life: “The sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel” (Prov 27:9). Firestone and Pierce define friendship, draw from perspectives of the past, and consider different types of friendship, its limits, and possible red flags. Learn what makes for a good friend and how you can be one.
Chris Firestone
Chris L. Firestone (PhD University of Edinburgh) is Chair of the Philosophy Department and Professor of Philosophy at Trinity International University. Some of his recent books are Kant and the Question of Theology, co-edited with Nathan Jacobs and James Joiner (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Kant and Theology at the Boundaries of Reason (Routledge, 2016), and Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought, co-edited with Nathan Jacobs (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012).
Alexander H. Pierce
Alexander H. Pierce (PhD University of Notre Dame) is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at the North American Lutheran Seminary. He is the author of multiple academic articles on Augustine, as well as, with Chris Firestone, Why Does Friendship Matter? (Lexham, 2021).