Love, Divine and Human: Contemporary Essays in Systematic and Philosophical Theology

Description

This volume offers an array of newly commissioned essays, addressing the topic of love in the Christian tradition. Drawn from a range of expert theologians and philosophers in contemporary analytic and non-analytic theology, these essays join current debates within the theology of love, and aim to propose new avenues for future research. Including the last essay written by Marilyn McCord Adams, Love, Divine and Human deals with a rich variety of issues related to divine and human love. The broad scope of the book includes divine transcendence and its methodological bearing on the doctrine of divine love, the nature and scope of divine love, the interrelation between God's love and wrath, the plausibility of an impassable God of love, and the application of various conceptions of divine love to the problem of divine hiddenness, human ethics, and human free will, among other topics. This unified collection of cutting-edge papers will advance discussion for all those focused on the theology of love.

Oliver D. Crisp is Professor of Analytic Theology in the Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology, University of St Andrews, UK. James M. Arcadi is Assistant Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, USA Jordan Wessling is a Curriculum Development Specialist and Instructional Designer, and Adjunct Instructor at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, USA.

No topic is more important to Christian doctrine than love. This important volume offers new essays on love by leading figures as well as newer voices in the emerging analytic theology movement. Some contributors address perennial questions about the nature and scope of divine love, its relationship to human love, and how God's love is compatible with hidden divinity and evil. Others ask even more challenging questions, such as whether there is really a Christian duty of neighborly-love, or whether the human sex drive is really a kind of longing for God. The essays together show the full depth and range of analytic theology at its finest. * WILLIAM WOOD, ORIEL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UK *