Face to Face, Volume One
Missing Love
by Marty Folsom
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
Face to Face is about personal relationships. Everyone talks as though they want one, but most of us are missing the strategies to live with this intimacy, especially with God. This book is an invitation to explore the "ah-ha" moments of a theologian who believes that theology should be practical and speak to where we live. Drawing from years of study in theology, biblical studies, counseling, and addiction therapy, this book is a creative conversation about what is missing in our most important element in life--our relationships. Its simplicity does not diminish its depth in penetrating some of the most complex questions of our age.
Marty Folsom (PhD, Otago, New Zealand) teaches in the Seattle area at Northwest University and Trinity Lutheran College. He is also the Executive Director of the Pacific Association for Theological Studies, and a popular speaker on relational themes.
"I am grateful for Marty Folsom's book Face to Face. His book is warmhearted and conversational as he guides his readers toward the goodness and generosity of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I have deep respect for the theological wisdom and evenhandedness of Folsom as a pastoral/theological writer."
--Earl Palmer, Earl Palmer Ministries
"This book is a joyful accompaniment to theological dialogue that emphasizes the relational love at the heart and being of the triune God. In a thoughtful, gracious, and personal way, Folsom reminds us of the thoughtful, gracious, and personal way God is . . . with us, restoring us and renewing our basic understanding of God and ourselves. This is transformational, descriptive theology that comes from a living, exposing, renewing encounter with the loving God."
--Cherith Fee Nordling, Northern Seminary
"Profound and personal, Marty Folsom offers us theologically informed insight into love--grounded in the Trinity, extended to us in Jesus Christ, and made available to us by the Spirit. If we are created for relationships of love with God and others, then this intensive and extensive meditation on love is where any and every theology worthy of the name must start and end."
--Gary W. Deddo, Grace Communion International
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