Love Is His Meaning
Understanding The Teaching Of Jesus
Offers a positive and creative interpretation of Jesus' teachings for today
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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.
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.
Ward is an excellent storyteller
[On THE PROMISE] A very refreshing approach to the Pentateuch
Keith Ward convincingly shows how weak the fundamentalist case is when it comes to Scripture
[On THE WORD OF GOD] This book is a feast of good things
Professor Ward's impassioned contribution to the debate on the authority of scripture . . . is bound to infuriate and delight in equal numbers
[On CHRISTIANITY: A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED] Useful, informative and inspiring
These 50 short chapters . . . wear their scholarly competence lightly
a very helpful introduction for a new Christian
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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.
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.
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.
Reviews
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.
Ward is an excellent storyteller
[On THE PROMISE] A very refreshing approach to the Pentateuch
Keith Ward convincingly shows how weak the fundamentalist case is when it comes to Scripture
[On THE WORD OF GOD] This book is a feast of good things
Professor Ward's impassioned contribution to the debate on the authority of scripture . . . is bound to infuriate and delight in equal numbers
[On CHRISTIANITY: A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED] Useful, informative and inspiring
These 50 short chapters . . . wear their scholarly competence lightly
a very helpful introduction for a new Christian
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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.