The Power and Vulnerability of Love: A Theological Anthropology

What is it about human beings that makes us capable and even desirous of inflicting terrible suffering on others (and ourselves)? If human beingsnot Godare the cause of evils such as extreme poverty, violence, and oppression, it is imperative that we probe the depths of the human heart to uncover why we, who are made in the image of Divine Eros, fail so miserably to love. Gandolfo constructs a theological anthropology in response to these pivotal questions. Gandolfo maintains that such an a...