Éditions du Jubilé, 2006
This book by a Lebanese Christian layman who is both a successful businessman and deeply involved in charity in his home country has two main theses, which he develops across several chapters – 1) what the world needs most is love, and 2) love is both a gift from God and the best way to God. It’s a book written in a fluent, conversational style, easy to read; it’s not a systematic exposition, but it illuminates its theses from different angles in order to support them.
Concerning the first thesis, I found myself agreeing with
many of the author’s examples and observations. On the second thesis, well, as
I’m skeptical concerning the existence of God, I lack the basis for accepting
the premise, but the author is graceful enough to appreciate if people embrace
love without God; he hopes it will lead them to God in the end. For me, if
reading this book makes some of its readers want to make this world a better
place, it would already justify the labor of the author. If God exists, I hope
he will see this the same way.
