In a previous article I tried to show something of the distinctive quality of Christian love, that love which was so new that the first Christmas had to look round for a new word to convey the precious new truth. We saw then that the essence of agape…

It is probably true to say that the idea that God is love is one of the most widely held and widely misunderstood of the Christian doctrines. “The man in the street” unhesitatingly subscribes to it, although he has only a hazy idea…

In the Old Testament the earthly form of the church is national and single; there is only one “church of God.” But in the New Testament it is local and multiple; there are many “churches of God.” The idea of a single ecumenical…