Love Your Enemies: Jesus' Love Command in the Synoptic Gospels and the Early Christian Paraenesis (Ebook)

A History of the Tradition and Interpretation of Its Uses

By John Piper

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Love Your Enemies: Jesus' Love Command in the Synoptic Gospels and the Early Christian Paraenesis (Ebook)

A History of the Tradition and Interpretation of Its Uses

By John Piper

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“Love Your Enemies…”

This is one of the few statements Jesus made that is readily accepted by believers and skeptics alike. Its authenticity is not seriously questioned and yet it is a revolutionary command.

Giving attention to various critical theories, John Piper presents evidence that the early church earnestly advocated for non-retaliatory love, extending it to those who practiced evil in the world. Such love was key to the church’s own ethical tradition or paraenesis.

Piper illuminates the Synoptics and passages in Romans, as well as 1 Thessalonians and 1 Peter, with non-canonical evidence, investigating the theological significance of Jesus’s love command.

Originally published as #38 in the Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, this is John Piper’s doctoral dissertation from the University of Munich. It is a serious work of Christian scholarship by a long-time respected author and pastor. This repackaged edition features a new, extensive introduction and will be of interest to scholars, students, and lay people who have training in New Testament studies.


Author:

John Piper

John Piper is founder and lead teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. He served for thirty-three years as a pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the author of more than fifty books, including Desiring God; Don’t Waste Your Life; and Providence.

Product Details

Format: Ebook
Page Count: 288
Size: 5.5 in x 8.5 in
ISBN-UPC: 9781433534782
ePub ISBN: 978-1-4335-3478-2
PDF ISBN: 978-1-4335-3476-8
Mobipocket ISBN: 978-1-4335-3477-5
Published: June 30, 2012