Love Is His Meaning: Understanding the Teaching of Jesus - Couverture souple

Ward, Keith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0281077630 ISBN 13 : 9780281077632

Editeur : SPCK Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Jesus' teaching has changed the world. Yet his sayings can often seem cryptic and hard to understand.

In Love Is His Meaning, Keith Ward explores the various figures of speech and images that Jesus used, and finds they are all ways of expressing and evoking the self-giving love of God, manifested supremely in Jesus' life. They communicate spiritual truths, often not in a literal but in a poetic way. They encourage us to take our own moral decisions with sensitivity and care for others. They show that God's love will never abandon anyone, and that it extends to everyone in the world without exception. And they promise a fulfilment of our hopes for a just and peaceable world that surpasses anything we might describe or imagine.

Putting aside literalist, authoritarian, legalistic, judgemental and divisive presentations of Jesus' teachings, the author shows that what remains is the gospel of a divine love - a love stronger than death, and the only power that can and will redeem our disordered world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Keith Ward is Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, London, and was formerly Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He is a priest of the Church of England, a fellow of the British Academy, and one of the world's most distinguished theologians.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SPCK Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0281077630
• ISBN 13: 9780281077632
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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