Top Highlights

• two major themes of this book – firstly, that we must observe and protect our affectionate attachment to Christ; and secondly, that our participation in a loving community of others is integral to the project.
• Kierkegaard wants us to see that we have completely missed the point of theology if we are not ‘attached’ to Jesus in a complex of obedience and loving affection.
• ‘There is no mistake more terrible than to suppose that activity in Christian work can take the place of depth of Christian affections’, says B.B. Warfield.5
• The wrong kind of talk about ‘proper Christian affections’ can drift into the heresy of Pelagius, as if we can simply buck ourselves up into the right kind of love for Jesus, and empower ourselves for faithful ministry by the force of a committed will.
• according to the logic of Scripture, people in ministry are as reliant upon the grace of God as anyone else.