Love Is His Meaning

Understanding The Teaching Of Jesus

Keith Ward

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SPCK Publishing
20 July 2017

The historical Jesus; Christian theology; Christian life & practice

Jesus' teaching has changed the world. Yet his sayings can often seem cryptic and hard to understand.

In Love Is His Meaning, Keith Ward explores the various figures of speech and images that Jesus used, and finds they are all ways of expressing and evoking the self-giving love of God, manifested supremely in Jesus' life. They communicate spiritual truths, often not in a literal but in a poetic way. They encourage us to take our own moral decisions with sensitivity and care for others. They show that God's love will never abandon anyone, and that it extends to everyone in the world without exception. And they promise a fulfilment of our hopes for a just and peaceable world that surpasses anything we might describe or imagine.

Putting aside literalist, authoritarian, legalistic, judgemental and divisive presentations of Jesus' teachings, the author shows that what remains is the gospel of a divine love - a love stronger than death, and the only power that can and will redeem our disordered world.

By: Keith Ward
Imprint: SPCK Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 152g
ISBN: 9780281077632
ISBN 10: 0281077630
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 20 July 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Keith Ward is Professorial Research Fellow at Heythrop College, London, and was formerly Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He is a priest of the Church of England, a fellow of the British Academy, and one of the world’s most distinguished theologians.

Reviews for Love Is His Meaning: Understanding The Teaching Of Jesus

Keith Ward has long represented some of the most distinctive traditions of British theology at its best – a strong and lucid philosophical basis, a keen and informed engagement with natural science and a style of relaxed clarity which makes complex matters readily accessible. -- Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge Ward is an excellent storyteller * Ministry Today * [On THE PROMISE] A very refreshing approach to the Pentateuch * Baptist Times * Keith Ward convincingly shows how weak the fundamentalist case is when it comes to Scripture * thegoodbookstall * [On THE WORD OF GOD] This book is a feast of good things * Methodist Recorder * Professor Ward's impassioned contribution to the debate on the authority of scripture . . . is bound to infuriate and delight in equal numbers * Publishing News * [On CHRISTIANITY: A GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED] Useful, informative and inspiring * The Tablet * These 50 short chapters . . . wear their scholarly competence lightly * Church Times * a very helpful introduction for a new Christian * Church Times *