Love Within Limits: Realizing Selfless Love in a Selfish World

by Lewis B. Smedes

Overview

This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable.

An exploration of how ideal love — selfless love — can work within the limits of our ordinary lives. Using the magnificent lines of 1 Corinthians 13 as his guide, Smedes discusses the areas of life into which love must fit in order to do its work. Includes discussion questions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802817532
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/19/1978
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Lewis B. Smedes (1921–2002) Was professor emeritus of theology and ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. Among his many books are Forgive and Forget, Shame and Grace, How Can It Be All Right When Everything Is All Wrong?, Love within Limits, and Mere Morality.

Table of Contents

	1 Corinthians 13	vi
	A Love Song Is	ix
1	Love Suffers Long	1
2	Love Is Kind	12
3	Love Is Not Jealous	22
4	Love Has Poise	31
5	Love Does Not Seek Its Own Rights	40
6	Love Does Not Seek Its Own Self	51
7	Love Is Not Irritable	62
8	Love Is Not Resentful	74
9	Love Hates Evil	81
10	Love Bears All Things	94
11	Love Believes All Things	104
12	Love Hopes All Things	112
13	Love Endures All Things	122
14	Love Lasts	132
15	Program Notes	140

Editorial Reviews

Richard John Neuhaus
"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."

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