Pluriform Love

A strong case can be made that love is the center of Christian scripture and tradition. And yet Christians often fail to give love center stage in biblical studies and theology. Why is this?Thomas Jay Oord explores this question and offers ground-breaking answers. In doing so, he addresses leading Christian thinkers of love today and of yesteryear. Oord addresses major biblical forms of love, such as agape, philia, hesed, and ahavah. We should understand love's meaning as uniform, he says, but its expressions are pluriform.Oord tackles our biggest questions about the nature and meaning of love, divine and creaturely. His proposals are novel. But they align with love described in scripture and expressed in everyday experience. Oord provides radical and yet persuasive answers to questions about evil, hell, the Big Bang, divine violence, and more.Pluriform Love changes the landscape of Christian love studies.