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In doing away with trivialities and cliches, this work gets to the heart of this all-important doctrine from an unflinching evangelical perspective. Yet it does so without losing its personal emphasis: for in understanding more of the comprehensive nature of Gods love as declared in His Word, you will come to understand God and His unending love for you more completely
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Making the Difficult Simple,
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This review is from: The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God (Paperback)
Many in the church today import the world's definition of love into the Bible wherever the concept is raised. Others may see apparent contradictions in Scripture as the Bible seems to say something about God's love for a particular group in one place that it denies elsewhere. Characteristically, Carson carefully shows there are different kinds of love in Scripture and different groups of people that God loves in different ways. What some reviewers see as a weakness (Carson's biblically grounded Reformed theology) is really the key to understanding the concept of the love of God in a way that avoids both a human centered misinterpretation or a world-parodying redefinition of what the Bible speaks of when it talks of the love of God.Though brief, this is an excellent book that is fairly accessible. Carson is one of few world-class Bible scholars who can distill profound thinking and complex concepts into understandable discussion and winsome presentation. This little book provides great and much needed clarity on what it means when the Bible asserts that "God is love".
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A challenge to our contemporary (mis)understanding of love.,
By Wayne Symes (Doha, Qatar) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God (Paperback)
What's so difficult about the love of God? Carson makes it clear that it is partly the way that `love' is expressed in modern society (where it has been devalued to the extent that it is either completely romanticised or becomes simply a synonym for sex). On the other hand, when we talk about the `love of God' we sometimes get caught using too narrow a definition (love seen as exclusively for the elect), or too broad (love for the world being so over-emphasised that there is no room left for judgement). Carson shows that God's love, as we should expect, is more complex than that. It is consequently more important and more wonderful. This is a great book because it deals with an important topic, in sufficient depth not to be simplistic, but not in such great detail that it becomes impossible to read. Well worth buying and reading (more than once).
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Brief but Excellent,
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This review is from: The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God (Paperback)
As other reviewers have mentioned, this book is adapted from a series of four lectures and only 78 pages long. Carson has kept an informal tone throughout the entire book. On the downsides, I think the book assumes at least some knowledge of Greek (which was fine for me, but may not be for everyone) and his discussion of theories of the atonement was rather limited--if you don't already know what Calvinism and Arminianism are, then his discussion of that issue will probably be somewhat cryptic. However, I think these drawbacks are minor and the book is excellent and definitely well worth reading. Do yourself a favor and purchase this book.Also, this book is written by a Calvinist, and does carry Calvinistic presuppositions in places. I think this is fine (as I find Calvinism to be Biblical), but it is worth noting. The author's New Covenant Theology does not enter into the book at all, except maybe in the ABSENSE of discussion of covenants in any fashion (there is no concept of covenantal love, for example, in Carson's categorizations--really this is his fifth category, but he needed to expound on it), but this is forgiveable.
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