Love of a God of Love

 Available now in the US and coming to the UK in November, Love of a God of Love: Towards a Transformation of the Philosophy of Religion by Hugo Strandberg (Lecturer, Department of Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland) develops a new understanding of religious belief centered on the concept of love. In his compelling and original argument, Strandberg moves beyond epistemological claims to recast faith as a relation and an existential endeavor primarily involving oneself by developing an idea of love that constitutes both the "what" and the "how" of belief. To love a God of love, he argues, is to allow love to characterize both the content and the action of one's belief.

"Strandberg is an original and serious thinker. His book presents an important alternative in the ongoing reflection upon what belief is and even more so, how to believe. I recommend this book to all those who appreciate perceptive and engaging thinking."
-- Catharina Stenqvist (Professor of philosophy of Religion, Lund University, Sweden)

"If, as Strandberg argues, the task of philosophy is to bring its audience into a new relationship with its subject matter—a relation of understanding, in which moral and religious demands cannot be evaded—it is a mark of his success that his study has the effect of rendering its subject not merely intelligible but compelling. Love of a God of Love is a major achievement of philosophical thinking."
-- Richard Amesbury (Associate Professor of Ethics, Claremont School of Theology, USA)