Loves Me, Loves Me Not: The Ethics of Unrequited Love

by Laura A. Smit

Overview

It hurts when the one you love doesn't love you back. It's hard to be the object of someone's desires when you just don't feel the same way. How should Christians deal with these situations? There are hundreds of books describing how to build lasting relationships or how to lead a chaste life as a single person. There are very few books, however, describing how to deal with unrequited love. With Loves Me, Loves Me Not, Laura Smit fills this void.

Smit tackles this universal human experience with intelligence, sympathy, and wit. An accessible book, Loves Me, Loves Me Not will be an invaluable tool for youth pastors; singles group leaders; college students; and students of human sexuality, marriage and family, and Christian ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801029974
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/01/2005
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Laura A. Smit (Ph.D., Boston University) is professor of theology at Calvin College and has served in a variety of pastoral settings.

Editorial Reviews

Unrequited love, a staple theme in fiction and film, has rarely been touched in nonfiction writings and even less often by ethicists or theologians. Smit (theology, Calvin Coll., Grand Rapids, MI) has written a sensitive and thoughtful book on this seldom-addressed subject, aiming to see the problem from a Christian perspective. She intelligently balances contemporary sociology with Christian spirituality, believing that love, requited or not, "helps us to escape the prison of self-centeredness" and that it is through love that we "pay sustained attention to someone else in order to see the half-unveiled glory of God's image." Highly recommended. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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