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CARTER LINDBERG is Professor Emeritus of Church History at Boston University School of Theology. He is the author of numerous books, including A Brief History of Christianity (2005), The Pietist Theologians (2004), The Reformation Theologians (2001), and The European Reformations (1995) – all published by Wiley-Blackwell.

• Preface ix1 The Language of Love 12 Biblical Views of Love 193 A World Without Love? The Greco-Roman World and Early Christianity 364 Caritas: The Augustinian Synthesis of Biblical Agape and Hellenistic Eros 515 Love and the Individual: Abelard and Bernard 666 Mystics and Troubadours 847 Faith Formed by Love: Scholasticism 1038 Faith Active in Love: Reformation 1189 Love as Service: Pietism and the Diaconal Movements 13310 Love in the Modern World 146Conclusion: Concluding Unscientific Postscript 168Bibliography 172Index 191

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