Love Within Limits

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"A Love Song Is..." A great love song is a moment of ecstasy frozen into words, a rhapsody of enthusiasm and passión, a metaphor pointing to a moment when the poet was lifted outside of himself to see reality in its ideál form. ... A love song is meant to seduce us from routine into a fantasized ideál of perfect love. God's love song is in many ways like other great love songs. Its humán writer St. Paul was taken outside of himself and his ordinary level of experience and given a vision of ideál love. . . . And yet his love song seems somehow meant for our living it. It draws a profilé of ideál love, but it is too plain for mystic passión. Love is not jealous, does not get angry quickly, endures very much - these are qualities for ordinary living in ordinary days. This is our challenge: to find ways to bring the heavenly rhapsody down into our own worldly realities. -from the Preface "Every great once in a while a Christian writer addresses the subject of love and transforms the... Tovább

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"A Love Song Is..." A great love song is a moment of ecstasy frozen into words, a rhapsody of enthusiasm and passión, a metaphor pointing to a moment when the poet was lifted outside of himself to see reality in its ideál form. ... A love song is meant to seduce us from routine into a fantasized ideál of perfect love. God's love song is in many ways like other great love songs. Its humán writer St. Paul was taken outside of himself and his ordinary level of experience and given a vision of ideál love. . . . And yet his love song seems somehow meant for our living it. It draws a profilé of ideál love, but it is too plain for mystic passión. Love is not jealous, does not get angry quickly, endures very much - these are qualities for ordinary living in ordinary days. This is our challenge: to find ways to bring the heavenly rhapsody down into our own worldly realities. -from the Preface "Every great once in a while a Christian writer addresses the subject of love and transforms the familiar into spiritual and intellectual adventure. Lewis Smedes has done that in LOVE WITHIN LIMITS. It is a book of brilliance, tenderness, and uncommon common sense. Christians of all traditions will welcome it as a guide to daily loving and eternal hope." -Richárd John Neuhaus LEWIS B. SMEDES, Professor of Theology and Philosophy of Religion at Fuller Theological Seminary, is the author of Sex for Christians and translator of several other books. A member of the editorial staff of The Reformed Journal, he contributes frequently to its pages. Vissza