Love

The Foundation of Christian Thought and Wisdom

Rodney Weems

• Editore: Resource Publications
• Anno: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781666725391
• Argomento: Théologie et religion
• Categoria: Études bibliques

After receiving a 2016 diagnosis of cancer, the author began to ask: If he had time on earth to complete only one more dream, what would it be? Love: The Foundation of Christian Thought and Wisdom is the beginning of that answer. It is a hopeful work that invites Christians to embrace not just the theology of the Bible but the Christology as well. Noting that hard-edged theology often ends up closing circles and hearts, the author points towards a holy Word whose gentle, daily Christology asks us to open our hearts, warts and all, to God, ourselves, and others. Love highlights 1 Corinthians as the Bible's christological center in co-narrative with its Romans theological center. In so doing, it shines an unexpectedly simple but deep light on exactly what God is asking of us in the name of Christian love.

Indice dei contenuti

• Title Page
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The Problem
• The Conversation Where Opposites Agreed
• Epiphany and Transformation
• Reformation
• Rome Versus Corinth
• Faith, Hope, but Especially Love
• Faith, Hope, but Especially Love, Paraphrased
• The Tenets of Wise-Love
• Love and the Ten Commandments
• What Is Lost When Grace Is Lost
• Maturity through Grace and Love
• Evidence of the Protective Wisdom Love Provides
• Wise-Love Reprised
• Bibliography