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The apostles Peter and Jude wouldn’t have made good postmodernists. They insist that there is such a thing as absolute, non-negotiable truth, as well as error and deception. They speak of false doctrines and those who teach them as if they actually believe that eternity hangs in the balance and that God, far from shrugging his shoulders like a good relativist, takes the matters of truth and...

refers to love expressed among fellow Christians.17 Agape, then, is not a completely different love, but embraces “love of the brethren” as one sphere of Christian love in its fullest scope—that Spirit-given act of the will by which we treat other people with active benevolence. Surely it is not by chance that love, the crown of Christian virtues (see 1 Cor. 13), comes at the climax of Peter’s staircase of Christian qualities. Note the parallel in Colossians 3:14: “And over all these virtues put
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