Book cover for Heart and Soul: The Emotions of Jesus by Peter Wallace

Heart and Soul

The Emotions of Jesus

2019 Released
112 Pages
2-3 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
Hardback Unavailable
Church PublishingISBN 9781640652293

A modern revision of a timeless but forgotten spiritual classic by Robert Law

In researching Jesus’s emotional life, Episcopal priest and Day1 producer and host Peter Wallace came across a scanned copy of Robert Law’s book, The Emotions of Jesus, in the Internet Archive. He found it to be a brilliant jewel of a book that flashes light on the facets of Jesus’s emotions and personality, brightening our understanding and appreciation of who Jesus was, how he lived, what it must have been like to be with him, and follow him.

Law’s century-old text has been carefully revised for a contemporary audience, without diminishing its beauty. Wallace addresses obscure wording and gender bias and provides background information and notes in order to ensure a fresh appreciation by modern readers. The result is a new approach to understanding Jesus, the wholly human one, who embodied a range of emotions as we do, and who serves as a model for living bold, authentic, and fervent lives today as followers of the way of love. Questions for meditation or discussion are included with each chapter.

Peter Wallace

The Rev. Peter Wallace is the host and executive producer of Day1, an acclaimed ecumenical radio ministry (formerly called The Protestant Hour) distributed to more than two hundred stations nationwide and in eight countries and available worldwide through podcasts at Day1.org. He is also president of the parent organization, the Alliance for Christian Media, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

He is the author of eight books, including Connected: You and God in the Psalms; Living Loved: Knowing Jesus as the Lover of Your Soul; Out of the Quiet: Responding to God's Whispered Invitations; Psalms for Today; TruthQuest Devotional Journal; and the devotional trilogy What Jesus Is Saying to You Today, What the Psalmist Is Saying to You Today, and What God Is Saying to You Today. He has contributed to many books, study Bibles, lectionary resources, devotional guides, magazines, teaching curricula, and websites. He is the writer and host of a series of twenty-six video webisodes titled "What Is God Saying to You Today?"

An Atlanta resident, Wallace is a postulant for holy orders in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta. He maintains a website at www.petermwallace.info and blogs on HuffingtonPost.com, Patheos.com, Day1.org, Facebook, and other sites. On Twitter he is @pwallace.

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