Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment, by Jim Forest, is an important book. It received the Gold Illumination Book Award for theology. But this is not a volume filled with big theological terms, but one that is accessible to anyone who wants to grapple with what Jesus would have us do: love our enemies/5(11). With great gusto and creative elan, Forest delineates and explains nine disciplines of active love from the New Testament that are aspects of personal and group response to enmity: 1. praying for enemies 2. doing good to enemies 3. turning the other cheek 4. forgiveness 5. breaking down the dividing wall of enmity 6. refusing to take an eye for an eye. · Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment. By Jim Forest. Orbis Books, pages. $20/paperback; $/eBook. Buy on FJ Amazon Store. Jim Forest is the religious child of American Communists who discovered he was a conscientious objector while serving in the U.S. Navy. He joined the Catholic Church and, after being discharged from the service as a CO, Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.
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Jim Forest has written a book of clear, well-written and useful instruction for striving to fulfill Jesus’ hardest commandment in our violent and perilous times. Highly recommended. –Jonathan Montaldo author; former director of the Thomas Merton Center * * * reader responses: Thank you for writing Loving Our Enemies. I guess for me, on a personal level, the nearest I’ve come to incarnating “enemy love,” was when I was called upon, in , to be the caregiver for my step-father. Jesus’ commandment to love our enemies might be the hardest to follow. It is a transformational directive that is at the heart of his instruction to do good to those who hate you. Jim Forest’s book Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment is an excellent introduction to this nonviolent love that Jesus demands of us. Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment. By Jim Forest. Orbis Books, pages. $20/paperback; $/eBook. Buy on FJ Amazon Store. Jim Forest is the religious child of American Communists who discovered he was a conscientious objector while serving in the U.S. Navy. He joined the Catholic Church and, after being discharged from the service as a CO, moved to New York to work with Dorothy Day in the Catholic Worker movement.
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