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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...

Three years ago I gave some lectures that were eventually published under the title The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God.1 Almost all the focus of those lectures was on the ways in which the Bible speaks of the love of God. I said relatively little about Christian love, i.e., about the love Christians are called to display. In this book I want to redress the balance a little; indeed, by the end of the work I shall show some of the
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