God Is Love

An Ignatius Press Reprint Ignatius Press Reprints are identical in content with the most recent print edition of the original title. In order to keep important titles available at reasonable prices, we reprint them digitally in small quantities. We use high quality, acid-free paper, but the books are not smyth-sewn as is customary with our offset press print editions. Everyone needs love. Everyone desires love. But not everyone understands love. In fact, love is probably the most misunderstood subject in history. In his first Encyclical, Pope Benedict helps to clarify the meaning of love. He examines the nature of various kinds of love -- human love and divine love, eros, friendship, and charity. He writes beautifully and inspirationally of how man was made for love by the God who is love, the God who became one of us out of love -- Jesus Christ. In the second part of the Encyclical, Benedict addresses the Church's practice of love. He examines the relationship between justice and charity, as well as the call of every Catholic to serve others in love. The Pope's "love letter" to mankind is remarkably accessible and timely.

An Ignatius Press Reprint Ignatius Press Reprints are identical in content with the most recent print edition of the original title. In order to keep important titles available at reasonable prices, we reprint them digitally in small quantities. We use high quality, acid-free paper, but the books are not smyth-sewn as is customary with our offset press print editions. Everyone needs love. Everyone desires love. But not everyone understands love. In fact, love is probably the most misunderstood subject in history. In his first Encyclical, Pope Benedict helps to clarify the meaning of love. He examines the nature of various kinds of love -- human love and divine love, eros, friendship, and charity. He writes beautifully and inspirationally of how man was made for love by the God who is love, the God who became one of us out of love -- Jesus Christ. In the second part of the Encyclical, Benedict addresses the Church's practice of love. He examines the relationship between justice and charity, as well as the call of every Catholic to serve others in love. The Pope's "love letter" to mankind is remarkably accessible and timely.

What if the cosmos itself is the first scripture? What if evolution, mysticism, and divine love are not separate paths but the same unfolding mystery? In God Is Love: The Heart of All Creation, Father Thomas Keating-a Trappist monk, contemplative teacher, and spiritual rebel-invites us into a vision of God that is vast, intimate, and alive within all things. Drawing from science, interfaith dialogue, scripture, and silence itself, Keating explores the evolutionary arc of consciousness as a movement toward divine union. With warmth, wisdom, and humility, Keating speaks of God not as distant authority, but as the very ground of being present in every particle, every person, every moment. For seekers, skeptics, mystics, and meditators alike, this book offers a theology of deep time and a pathway to inner transformation. The spiritual journey, Keating reminds us, is not about escaping the world-but about seeing it as it truly is: drenched in love, and longing to wake us up.

What if the cosmos itself is the first scripture? What if evolution, mysticism, and divine love are not separate paths but the same unfolding mystery? In God Is Love: The Heart of All Creation, Father Thomas Keating-a Trappist monk, contemplative teacher, and spiritual rebel-invites us into a vision of God that is vast, intimate, and alive within all things. Drawing from science, interfaith dialogue, scripture, and silence itself, Keating explores the evolutionary arc of consciousness as a movement toward divine union. With warmth, wisdom, and humility, Keating speaks of God not as distant authority, but as the very ground of being present in every particle, every person, every moment. For seekers, skeptics, mystics, and meditators alike, this book offers a theology of deep time and a pathway to inner transformation. The spiritual journey, Keating reminds us, is not about escaping the world-but about seeing it as it truly is: drenched in love, and longing to wake us up.