"With insight and passion, William Greenway awakens us to the wondrous force of agape within and around us. Countering the spiritual and moral poverty of our age, this collection of essays ignites a response to suffering and injustice with its rich and multifaceted depiction of how agape --'the very force of God insofar as God is love'--permeates all aspects of our lives." --Lois Malcolm, professor of systematic theology, Luther Seminary "William Greenway's In the Light of Agape is a compact treasure--a forceful and persuasive defense of moral realism rooted in agape , understood as a genuine moral power which is as real and efficacious as gravity. Traversing a wide terrain including philosophy of religion, ethics, and theology, in conversation with Levinas, Heidegger, Augustine, and others, this is an indispensable book for a wide readership committed to affirming that love is no mere sentiment but a force grounding the possibility of ethical life." --John J. Thatamanil, professor of theology and world religions, Union Theological Seminary "Why be moral? Faced with this foundational question in ethics, In the Light of Agape does not so much answer as deconstruct it, exposing the built-in assumption of an unencumbered and autonomous moral selfhood morality self that is guided by the Western ideal of objective, disengaged, and neutral--and hence sociopathic--rationality. Written with flair, insight, and heart, In the Light of Agape offers a powerful argument for the undeniable moral reality of agape, which it defines as our having always already been seized by the sympathetic and passionate concern for another." --Hyo-Dong Lee, associate professor of comparative theology, Drew University.