They gave Judgment Day, Wrath and Hell a whole semester. Love got an hour.
Dr. Eitan Bar spent two decades within fundamentalist Christianity, first as a student and later as a theology teacher. He sat through courses that devoted weeks to original sin, judgment day, church discipline, and the rapture.
But love, the one thing Jesus identified as the defining mark of His disciples, received a single lecture and was then filed away as merely another attribute of God.
Not the center. Not the foundation. Not the thing everything else was supposed to lead toward.
This short book seeks to put love back where Jesus left it: at the very center.
Writing from Israel as a Jewish follower of Jesus, Dr. Bar explores what Jesus, Paul, and John meant by love in the language, culture, and world in which they actually lived, rather than through the assumptions of our own.
Along the way, he makes a case that m
