Reordered Love Reordered Lives
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If we have a particle of sense, St. Augustine said, we realize that we all want to be happy. In fact, we were designed to crave happiness – human happiness was actually God’s original idea. Why is it, then, that it so often cannot be found? Are we looking in the wrong places? David K. Naugle begins with the biblical creation account, arguing that God’s plan for happiness was based around a loving relationship with the Creator, our work, relationships, food, rest and recreation, homes and habitats – an “edenistic” happiness called shalom. Then the plan went wrong: man sinned against God. Now separate from the Creator, man attached his loves in excessive ways to various things to fill the need for that perfect love now missing. Yet while searching for that happiness, our disordered loves have disordered our lives. Our quest for happiness results in misery. Only the restoration of a loving relationship with God can bring us back into shalom. Naugle here presents a counter cultural – both secular and church culture – view of happiness, drawing us back to the original and perfect model we must strive for. Reordered Love, Reordered Lives points readers to the transforming power of the gospel of Jesus Christ in order to discover the truly happy life in God.
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SKU (ISBN): 9780802828170
ISBN10: 0802828175
David Naugle
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: November 2008
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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