God Is Love vs. Love Is God Our culture's view of love-with no boundaries or judgments or conditions- justifies whatever our hearts want and whatever our hearts feel, rejecting any authority that gets in the way. Falsely heralded as the only path to true selfexpression and self-realization, this kind of love diminishes-if not completely redefines-the holy love of God revealed in the Bible. In this book, Jonathan Leeman directs us toward a biblical...

One deep problem facing the Catholic church is the question of how its teaching authority is understood today. It is fairly clear that, while Rome continues to teach as if its authority were unchanged from the days before Vatican II (1962-65), the majority of Catholics - within the first-world church, at least - take a far more independent line, and increasingly understand themselves (rather than the church) as the final arbiters of decision-making,...