Love as Agape: The Early Christian Concept and Modern Discourse

by Oda Wischmeyer

In our fraught global environment, when political and ideological lines are drawn ever sharper and old allegiances are increasingly strained, love for neighbor as both individual and societal obligation needs to be thematized and justified anew. At the same time, the New Testament call to love one's enemies forms a sharp point of contrast to the current non-culture of hatred for all things different and foreign.

Oda Wischmeyer's Love as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481315749
• ISBN13: 9781481315746
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.7" x 9.1"