Love of God

The words of God's love and God's love can refer to a man's eternal love for God and eternal love of God is a man. The radiation emanating from God is love - in the New Testament it is called Agape - is understood in the sense of an infinite, absolute unconditional love.

Old Testament and Jewish theology

Thus says about the Old Testament of God's intimate love (Heb. especially ' Ahaba ) to his people Israel ( Hosea 3, 11, Deu 7, 6 ff ) and also to individuals (such as Solomon ). In God's covenant with Israel Yahweh's relationship as a contractual partner is also characterized by words such as Hebrew HSD ( loyal attachment ), ' mn ( loyalty, credibility, reliability ), RHM ( tenderness ), HMN ( preference). The relationship between Yahweh and Israel is that of father and son ( Ex 4, 22 and Hosea 11: 1) as well as groom and bride (Hos 1-3 passim; Jer; Ez, Isaiah ) are compared, and the mother, who her son can not forget ( [ deutero ] Isa 49:15; [ Trito - ] Isa 66:13 ). Psalms further use, for example, the image of the shepherd (Psalm 23). The Jewish wisdom literature speaks of the love that overcomes death and based on the entire cosmos is (Wis 4,7 ff; 11,24 ). The back -turning love of Israel to Yahweh corresponds this antecedent affection of the Lord: " ' Israel ' and ' Yahweh lovers ' can be exchange terms". The Jewish theology of the second to first century BC recommends the enemies of love and understands the love " as the epitome of piety ."

New Testament and Christian theology

New Testament texts prefer, unlike the other ancient Greek parlance, the term agape, the " at the same time the creative and redemptive L [ ove ] of God to the world and people [ describes ] the erwidernde L [ ove ] of man to God and the L [ ove ] of man to man as unausbleibliches testimony of the human L [ ove ] to God. "

When Paul of Tarsus, love is not only Israel but also the "enemies " -related ( Rom 5:8 f u. Elsewhere) and particularly interpreted by the crucifixion of Jesus forth. The hymn to love ( 1 Cor 13) reception history to a "nucleus of a Christian ethics." The author of the Gospel of Mark Jesus calls the " beloved son " in baptism ( Mark 1:11 ); his " Transfiguration " ( 9.7 ) and the beginning of the Passion report ( 12.6 ), and therefore " [ a] n three crucial points concerning the efficacy of Jesus." The author of Matthew's gospel connects the dawn of the "Kingdom of God" gift of God's love with the love that God contrary to bring the "disciples" (Matthew 5). The Johannine school speaks of the love between father and son as a source of life (Jn 15,9 f, 17,24 ff ) and identifies God and " love" ( 1 Jn 4:8,16 ).

Islamic Theology

Termini classical Islamic theology and Arabic philosophy for the love of God include Hubb and ' ishq. Arab philosophers such as Farabi identify ( as was Greek and Christian thinkers ) God and the absolute love. Avicenna example, has devoted to the subject of emanierenden of God is love, which finds itself in every object and aspire to God again, a separate short essay.

Related Topics

Bhakti, love of God in Hinduism

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