Love Divine provides a systematic account of the deep and rich love that God has for humans. While the associated theological territory is vast, the objective is to contend for a unified paradigm regarding fundamental issues pertaining to the God of love who deigns to share His life of love with any human willing to receive it. Realizing this objective includes clarifying and defending specific conclusions concerning how the doctrine of divine love should be approached, what God's love is, what role love plays in motivating God's creation and subsequent governance of humans, how God's love of humans factors into His emotional life, which humans it is that God loves in a saving manner, what the punitive wrath of God is and how it relates to God's love for humans, and how it might be possible for God to share the intra-trinitarian life of love with human beings. As the book unfolds, the chapters interlock and build upon one another in the effort to trace nodal issues related to God's love as it begins in Him and then spills out in the creation, redemption, and glorification of humanity--a kind of exitus-reditus structure that is driven by the unyielding love of God.

Jordan Wessling (Ph.D., University of Bristol) is a Henry Resident Fellow at the Carl F.H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. His research interests are broad, and he has published nearly twenty articles and book chapters in The International Journal of Systematic Theology, Theology and Science, and The International Journal of Philosophy of Religion. He is currently working on book projects on prayer and theological method. Wessling is the book reviews editor for The Journal of Analytic Theology and has held a research fellowships at Fuller Theological Seminary and the University of Notre Dame.