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Too often the Christian version of popular culture’s sentimental view of love is that, of all things, Christians should be nice. After all, people ask, isn’t the Church about forgiveness? Aren’t Christians supposed to love others without condition? This book not only focuses on the aspects of Christian love that are not easy–such as when it comes to loving our enemies, and even forgiving those...

to review and summarize very briefly one of the central themes of my earlier little book, The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God. There I argued that the Bible speaks of the love of God in at least five distinguishable ways. (1) The love of the Father for the Son (e.g., John 3:35; 5:20) and of the Son for the Father (John 14:31). This intra-Trinitarian love, if I may use terms that were not developed until later, is not the love of redemption: neither the Father nor the Son needs redeeming. Nor
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