Loving Our Enemies Through Seasons of Bitterness: How Christians Can Weather the Culture War
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
In a nation crumbling under the weight of bitterness, where government is the people’s god, the way through is neither legislation nor activism but loving the least loveable. A study of internet influence, conflict theory, and nineteenth-century wisdom reveals that people do not have to solve their disagreements if they can relearn how to love their enemies as Christ commanded. This book highlights courageous men and women of faith from biblical times up through the present who obeyed this commandment, the Scriptures they followed, and how they managed it so that people today too might learn to substitute love instead of bitterness.
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- Challenges Christians to respond to cultural hostility with Christlike love, forgiveness, and humility.
- Emphasizes personal sanctification, peacemaking, and the transformative power of kindness in a bitter and polarized world.
- Provides spiritual and practical counsel on how to remain faithful, peaceful, and gracious in times of political, cultural, and relational tension.
- The Media Is the Malefactor?
- The Self and the Cosmos
- Patterns of Bitterness
- No One to Comfort Them (But Me)
- I Pardon You
- To Whisper a Doxology in the Darkness
- The Art of Losing Well
- No Man Is an Island
This magnificently researched and deeply inspiring book makes a number of breakthroughs. Most importantly, Kohn addresses a pastoral problem which everyone can recognize: the growing bitterness present in our culture. In addition to exploring scholarship about social media, victimhood, the displacement of religion by politics, social identity, and ressentiment, he focuses constructively on what Christians can and must do: compassionately love our enemies, including through forgiveness and practicing gratitude, with an eye to eschatological hope.
——Matthew Levering, James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary
- Title: Loving Our Enemies through Seasons of Bitterness: How Christians Can Weather the Culture War
- Author: Lex Kohn
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2025
- Logos Release Date: 2025
- Pages: 284
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Christianity and culture United States; Forgiveness Religious aspects Christianity; Love Religious aspects Christianity; Resentment Religious aspects Christianity; Social media Religious aspects Christianity
- ISBNs: 9798385245659, 9798385245635, 9798385245642
- Resource ID: LLS:9798385245659
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-12-17T19:25:54Z