""If true love exists, it must have a transcendent and personal source. How can that source be best explained? Not, Haddad argues, by the worldviews of naturalism, pantheism, or a number of theistic religions. Love's best and only final explanation is Christian theism. Haddad's argument is clear, detailed, rational, and compelling. Helpful for every evangelist, apologist, or biblically literate Christian."" --James W. Sire author of The Universe Next Door ""While humans speak of love, yearn for love, give love, receive love, and have their hearts broken (and break other hearts) by the manifold betrayals of love, the very fact of love is often unexplained or (worse yet) explained away by philosophies that cannot bear its bittersweet weight. Haddad, however, does not shrink from this daunting task, but rather marshals the theological and philosophical resources required to set forth a compelling case that only the Christian vision of existence can give love its proper meaning, value, and significance--even (or especially) amidst all the tears, blood, and fears of a world 'east of Eden.'"" --from the Foreword by Douglas Groothuis author of Truth Decay: Defending Christianity Against the Challenges of Postmodernism