These homilies, lectures, and essays vigorously champion the authors conviction that it is reasonable to believe in a God of ""pure unbounded love"" and, also, that the best religion is a reasonable religion. That is, ""the God of Love"" is ""the God of Reason"" and, as a seventeenth-century Cambridge preacher put it, ""If you would be religious, be rational in your religion.""

Thus, these essays challenge both the New Atheists and Fundamentalists, who are twins like Tweedledum and Tweedledee. And they aim, positively, to unpack the meaning and implications of Jesus dictum: ""You shall love...