Dennison examines the meaning of agape love across Paul, John, and Romans, arguing that God’s ultimate self-revelation is precisely his love. He does not shy from setting that love alongside God’s wrath, showing how both meet in the love described in 1 Corinthians 13.
The series closes with Dennison facing the sheer strangeness of God commanding what amounts to a pagan ritual and abomination: child sacrifice. The story’s purpose, he argues, is to push us past the law itself to the truth beneath it. Our bond with God is finally rooted in his love, not merely his commands.
Abraham and Isaac become, for Dennison, a picture of Christ’s own passive and active obedience. The shocking command to sacrifice a son should not, in the end, shock us, he argues, and he draws a pointed line from ancient child sacrifice to modern disregard for unborn life. All of it stands against the backdrop of God’s own sacrificial love.
