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Gentle and Lowly

Gentle and Lowly

by Dane C. Ortlund

The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

2020
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He centers self-revelation not on power or demand but on heart, redefining the core lens for understanding him as his deepest, most natural disposition toward people. By treating heart as the animating center of intent and action, he advances a contrarian framework: theology should begin with who he is at his core—gentle and lowly—rather than with what we fear he might do. This heart-first lens resists caricatures of cold sovereignty or distant holiness by insisting that compassion is not a mood he occasionally enters but the posture he most readily adopts toward need.

Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly