Love, Divine and Human: Contemporary Essays in Systematic and Philosophical Theology

Oliver D. Crisp is Professor of Analytic Theology in the Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology, University of St Andrews, UK. James M. Arcadi is Assistant Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, USAJordan Wessling is a Curriculum Development Specialist and Instructional Designer, and Adjunct Instructor at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, USA.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Jordan Wessling, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA1. Love Without Measure? John Webster's Unfinished Dogmatic Account of the Love of God, in Dialogue with Thomas J. Oord's Interdisciplinary Theological Account - Kevin Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, USA2. Analogies of Love between God and Creatures: A Response to Kevin Vanhoozer - Thomas J. Oord, Northwest Nazarene University, USA3. Divine Love and Personality - Michael C. Rea, University of Notre Dame, USA4. The Hidden Love of God and the Imagining Defense - Sameer Yadav, Westmont College, USA5. The Limits of Divine Love - Jeffrey J. Jordan, University of Delaware, USA6. In Defense of the Loving Parent Analogy - Thomas Talbott, Willemette University, USA7. What Wideness, Whose Strictness? The Scope and Limits of Divine Love for Humankind - Marylin McCord Adams, Rutgers University, USA8. Impassibility, Omnisubjectivity, and the Problem of Unity in Love - R.T. Mullins, St Andrews University, UK9. A Love that Speaks in Harsh Tones: On the Superiority of Divine Communicative Punishment - Jordan Wessling, University of Notre Dame, USA10. The Indwelling of the Holy Spirit by Love - Adonis Vidu, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, USA11. Love and Resentment - Leigh Vicens, Augustana University, USA12. 'Is there a Christian Duty to Love?' - Kent Dunnington, Biola University, USA13. "Sex is Really About God": Sarah Coakley and the Transformation of Desire - Erin Dufault-Hunter, Fuller Theological Seminary, USA14. Perfect Obediance, Perfect Love, and the (So-Called) Problem of Heavenly Freedom - James T. Turner Jr., Anderson University, USAList of ContributorsIndex

No topic is more important to Christian doctrine than love. This important volume offers new essays on love by leading figures as well as newer voices in the emerging analytic theology movement. Some contributors address perennial questions about the nature and scope of divine love, its relationship to human love, and how God’s love is compatible with hidden divinity and evil. Others ask even more challenging questions, such as whether there is really a Christian duty of neighborly-love, or whether the human sex drive is really a kind of longing for God. The essays together show the full depth and range of analytic theology at its finest.