- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd (Aug 1977)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0232513805
- ISBN-13: 978-0232513806
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 242,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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The vulnerability of God,
By A Customer
This review is from: Love's Endeavour, Love's Expense (Paperback)
I was recommended this book a few years ago, and when I read it I came to see God in a different light. Here, Vanstone talks about a vulnerable God, who allows humans the freedom to do as they will, realizing that his love may fail. God's love is always having to overcome that which is lost; to Vanstone God's love is always open to the possibility of failure, but because God's love is self-emptying and totally unconditional, it's a love that never gives in, and ultimately will not fail.This book is beautifully written with excellent illustrations by a man whose belief in God is inspirational. Read this book and you may discover an element of God you may not have realized before!
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
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A Life-Changing View of the Love of God,
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This review is from: Love's Endeavour, Love's Expense (Paperback)
This book presents what was for me a life-changing view of the love of God. But beware. Although this book is short, it is theologically and philosophically dense. It consolidates a life-time of reflection on the Love of God by a much-celebrated British writer and theologian who eschewed the life of academia for that of an urban (Anglican) parish priest. It is extremely difficult to review this book in which one idea is chain-linked to the next. Broadly, Vanstone's reflection is that true love gives everything it has, to the point of being spent, while simultaneously allowing the object of it's love to be and become in complete freedom. And God, needless to say, is True Love. I don't agree with everything Vanstone says; I have a hard time, for instance, of thinking of God being totally exhausted in the act of loving his creation. Nonetheless, what this book did for me was to answer the question: "Is it true that God actually cares and participates in our reality? And if the answer is yes, how does God do this without violating the free will of those God loves?" For me, the net result of reading this book has been to make both God and God's love more real and less ethereal. The manner in which this message is brought home is, however, relentlessly intellectual. This is not a book to read for easy, uplifting inspiration, but rather for challenging intellectual inspiration.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A beautiful book about God's creative love,
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This review is from: Love's Endeavour, Love's Expense (Paperback)
This is one of those books that makes you see things in a whole new light. Slowly but surely, Vanstone builds up a beautiful and moving picture of God the loving creator, delighting in his creation and allowing us to respond to his love, freely and also creatively. In the end, it's a very simple message, and yet Vanstone presents it so compellingly, and unpretentiously, that it's as if you'd never really heard it before. It's probably one of the best spiritual books I've read. And I have a strong feeling that I shall re-read it many times, always with pleasure and benefit, in the years to come.
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