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"A masterpiece from the preeminent theologian of love!" Love is the center of Christian scripture and experience. And yet Christians often fail to give love center stage in biblical studies and theology. Why is this? Thomas Jay Oord offers ground-breaking answers to this crucial question. He addresses leading Christian thinkers of today and yesteryear and explores biblical forms of love, such as agape, philia, hesed, and ahavah. Love's meaning is uniform, Oord says, but its expressions are pluriform. Oord tackles perplexing questions about the nature and meaning of love, divine and creaturely. His proposals are novel and provocative, and yet they align with scripture and everyday experience. A follow-up to Oord's best-selling and award-winning The Uncontrolling Love of God, this book both expands and deepens the open and relational theological vision. Along the way, Oord offers radical though persuasive answers to questions about evil, creation and the Big Bang, divine violence, hell, worship, divine faithfulness, and more. Pluriform Love revolutionizes Christian studies of love.