He has been a God who is the very definition of love. He is faithful, and He is compassionate. This is the God of the Hebrew Bible, of the Old Testament. And this is the God of the New.

Park shows how the biblical narratives suggest that love might be its own entity, perhaps even one that has authority over God. In the Hebrew Bible, Park demonstrates, love is “fraught and complicated ...

a word that comes from the Hebrew for womb and suggests God’s intimate attachment to us; kindness, sometimes translated “steadfast love,” which indicates the tenacity of God’s commitment ...