The son of a Baptist minister, I was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 1977. I studied for the ministry at Princeton, General, and Union Seminaries. I served as a parish priest for 40 years. I have a particular interest in the healing ministry and the Jewish roots of Christianity. I am married and have a grown son and daughter.
"What is love?" was the most frequently searched question on Google in 2014. In an attempt to answer that question I developed a chart entitled "Ways of Loving." Whenever I encountered an author that tried to define just what love is I added his definition to the chart. These authors are theologians, philosophers, psychologists, or psychiatrists. I also included the teaching of Jesus known as his "Golden Rule." I developed the chart as a tool to use with the people I counsel as a Christian pastor who are seeking to better understand what love is and how they can better give and receive love. The book is my own reflections on the chart. The book is organized following the Rabbinical notion that when God undertakes a work he does so in 4 stages - conception, creation, formation, and completion. Thus, love also evolves through those stages. I also include a section on shame, what we experience when love is interrupted, and forgiveness, how we can be restored to love. In the afterward I briefly address the question of "Why is there love?" I answer that as a Christian that believes in the Trinity of God where the three persons of God dwell in love and achieve union and communion. From the joy and peace of their mutual love they create creatures in love for love.
Título : Ways of Loving
EAN : 9781370712212
Editorial : Daniel Kreller
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