Love Is His Meaning: Understanding The Teaching Of Jesus - Softcover

Ward, The Revd Professor Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0281077630 ISBN 13: 9780281077632

Publisher: SPCK Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Jesus' teaching has changed the world. Yet his sayings can often seem cryptic and hard to understand.

In Love Is His Meaning, Keith Ward explores the various figures of speech and images that Jesus used, and finds they are all ways of expressing and evoking the self-giving love of God, manifested supremely in Jesus' life. They communicate spiritual truths, often not in a literal but in a poetic way. They encourage us to take our own moral decisions with sensitivity and care for others. They show that God's love will never abandon anyone, and that it extends to everyone in the world without exception. And they promise a fulfilment of our hopes for a just and peaceable world that surpasses anything we might describe or imagine.

Putting aside literalist, authoritarian, legalistic, judgemental and divisive presentations of Jesus' teachings, the author shows that what remains is the gospel of a divine love - a love stronger than death, and the only power that can and will redeem our disordered world.

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Review:

Keith Ward has long represented some of the most distinctive traditions of British theology at its best - a strong and lucid philosophical basis, a keen and informed engagement with natural science and a style of relaxed clarity which makes complex matters readily accessible. Author: Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge

Ward is an excellent storyteller Source: Ministry Today

[On THE PROMISE] A very refreshing approach to the Pentateuch Source: Baptist Times

Keith Ward convincingly shows how weak the fundamentalist case is when it comes to Scripture Source: thegoodbookstall

[On THE WORD OF GOD] This book is a feast of good things Source: Methodist Recorder

Professor Ward's impassioned contribution to the debate on the authority of scripture . . . is bound to infuriate and delight in equal numbers Source: Publishing News

[On CHRISTIANITY: A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED] Useful, informative and inspiring Source: The Tablet

These 50 short chapters . . . wear their scholarly competence lightly Source: Church Times

a very helpful introduction for a new Christian Source: Church Times

From the Author:

Keith Ward is Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, London, and was formerly Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He is a priest of the Church of England, a fellow of the British Academy, and one of the world's most distinguished theologians.

About this edition

• Publisher: SPCK Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0281077630
• ISBN 13: 9780281077632
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128