'From the first pages of this book Professor Jeanrond states his intention to offer praxis - how we 'do' love - rather than describing, however completely, a history or dogmatic theory. Love is now described in its institutional and political manifestations: Church, family, friendship, chastity, and sexuality. Love now offers a challenge to charity, to the individual, to global and ecclesial society. Love informs those individual and collective relationships by which we are fulfilled. Love is that which guides all interaction including our interaction with God. It is in this framework that Jeanrod explores the doctrines of creation, salvation, and forgiveness, revealing the self-giving love of God. Sensitive to the questions of our time, the tone of this section is more reflective on pastoral and spiritual concerns, showing that theology need not be separated into kerygmatic or dogmatic categories but is at its best when it endeavours to embrace both. No-one who gives time to this seriously well-researched work will ever again lazily use the word Love. Instead, they will find this book to be an indispensible tool in understanding more clearly both the human and religious experience of, and language about, love.'--Sanford Lakoff "The Furrow "
'From the Bible to Pope Benedict XVI, and drawing from literatures in half a dozen languages, Werner Jeanrond tracks the development of Christian thinking about love, its varieties and its controversies. This is far more than mere history, however, since through it runs a salutary, ecumenical argument for transcending the Lutheran dichotomy between divine agape and human eros, so as to recover the creative calling and potential of human love. Nor is it just about ideas, but also about the institutions family, marriage, friendship, church which can cultivate the praxis of love in a culture whose individualism has kicked away so many social supports. "A Theology of Love" is a broad education, characteristically generous in spirit, rich in substance, and refreshingly uncluttered in style.' - Nigel Biggar, Christ Church, Oxford, UK.--Sanford Lakoff
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'In this masterful account of the journey of love in Christian theology, Jeanrond combines rich historical analysis with a hermeneutics of suspicion to propose a new and refreshing theology of love which does not shun human embodiment and desire. Critically attuned to the ways in which the notion of love has often served Christian exceptionalism, Jeanrond points to the continuities between Hebrew, Greek and Christian conceptions of love, and to the dynamic interaction between secular and religious approaches to thus offer a more inclusive and broadly pertinent Christian vision.' - Catherine Cornille, Professor of Comparative Theology, --Sanford Lakoff
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'Inthis masterful account of the journey of love in Christian theology, Jeanrond combinesrich historical analysis with a hermeneutics of suspicion to propose a new andrefreshing theology of love which does not shun human embodiment anddesire. Critically attuned to the waysin which the notion of love has often served Christian exceptionalism, Jeanrondpoints to the continuities between Hebrew, Greek and Christian conceptions oflove, and to the dynamic interaction between secular and religious approac
