Love Basics for Catholics: Illustrating God's Love for Us throughout the Bible
About this ebook
Join popular scripture scholar John Bergsma on a journey from the union of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden to the wedding feast of the Lamb in the book of Revelation. Along the way, you’ll discover how marriage in the Bible reveals the profound love between God and his people.
Focusing on nine key biblical marriages, Bergsma uncovers what these relationships teach us about God’s covenant love
- Adam and Eve reveal marriage as the culmination of creation and a reflection of the Trinity.
- Ruth and Boaz embody tenderness, fidelity, and virtue.
- Solomon and his bride in the Song of Songs celebrate the goodness of the body and human love.
- Christ the Bridegroom shows us the ultimate union between Jesus and his Church.
With his signature stick-figure illustrations and engaging, accessible style, Bergsma brings scripture and salvation history to life in a way that is both memorable and meaningful. He also sheds light on church teachings on marriage and relationships—including monogamy, the single life, the Sacrament of Matrimony, and Jesus’s words on divorce—revealing how each flows from God’s faithful love expressed through the covenants of scripture.
“The story of salvation,” Bergsma writes, “is a romantic comedy because it is literally about love from beginning to end!”
Discover the love story at the heart of scripture—and be invited into God’s love.
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About the author
John Bergsma is a professor of theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He served as a Protestant pastor for four years before entering the Catholic Church in 2001 while pursuing a doctorate specializing in the Old Testament and the Dead Sea Scrolls from the University of Notre Dame.
In addition to teaching scripture at Franciscan, Bergsma is a frequent guest on Catholic radio, and he speaks regularly at conferences and parishes nationwide. Bergsma has published a number of academic and popular works on the Bible and the Catholic faith, including Bible Basics for Catholics, New Testament Basics for Catholics, Psalm Basics for Catholics, and A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: Old Testament.
He and his wife, Dawn, live with their children in Steubenville, Ohio.
