Love in Hard Places
Overview
Too often the Christian version of popular culture’s sentimental view of love is that, of all things, Christians should be nice. After all, people ask, isn’t the Church about forgiveness? Aren’t Christians supposed to love others without condition? This book not only focuses on the aspects of Christian love that are not easy–such as when it comes to loving our enemies, and even forgiving those loved ones who have hurt us–but also helps readers understand, then, what biblical love really is. As author D. A. Carson points out, thinking seriously about Christian love soon embroils us in reflection on justice, revenge, war, the authority of the state, forgiveness, hate, and much more. This book shows some of the important ways in which the love of Christians is a reflection of the love of God, and enables believers to develop an appropriate understanding of how to love in the hard places of life.
Top Highlights
“popular culture saunters between a sentimental view and an erotic view of love” (Page 11)
“love, rightly understood and practiced, actually fulfilled Old Testament law” (Page 19)
“We find it difficult to hate those for whom we pray; we find it difficult not to pray for those whom we love” (Page 44)
“unity is not an intrinsic good. There is good unity, and there is bad unity” (Page 62)
“ our responsibility to love our enemies is grounded in the fact that God providentially loves the just and the unjust” (Page 15)
- Title: Love in Hard Places
- Author: D. A. Carson
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2002
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Love › Religious aspects--Christianity; Forgiveness › Religious aspects--Christianity; Love › Biblical teaching; Forgiveness › Biblical teaching
- ISBNs: 9781581344257, 1581344252, 9781433510922, 9781433510939, 9781433515934, 1433510928, 1433510936, 1433515938
- Resource ID: LLS:LOVEINHARDPLACES
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:19:28Z
D.A. Carson (b. 1946) is one of the most respected New Testament scholars in the world. A respected teacher, author, and speaker, he is currently research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and the president of The Gospel Coalition. He has served as pastor of Richmond Baptist Church and as the first dean of the seminary of Northwest Baptist Theological College, now known as Northwest Baptist Seminary. Logos has collected his sermons—including audio—in the D.A. Carson Sermon Archive.
Carson lectures in academic and church settings around the world, and is the author of more than 50 books, including Exegetical Fallacies, Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel According to John, The Gagging of God, Showing the Spirit: A Theological Exposition of 1 Corinthians 12–14 and the Intolerance of Tolerance. He is the editor of the Pillar New Testament Commentary series, and coedited of the Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament with G.K. Beale, and the Studies in New Testament Greek series with Stanley Porter. You can find more of Carson’s work in the Baker D.A. Carson Collection (15 vols.).