It is astonishing the primacy of love, as it emerges from the gospel of the Church. One might wonder what remains to be said, since the evangelist John defined God Himself as love (1 John 4:8) and the apostle Paul uttered the hymn of love (1 Corinthians 13)!
And yet, for the Church to truly be the Church, it needs to constantly bring the gospel (that is, the good news, that love is the only way of life that truly has a future without end, as it is the way of existence of the One who has no end) to every era and every person. It needs, therefore, for the faithful themselves not only to parrot the texts of Scripture, but to live in such a way that their very lives reveal the good news, and their words to be a testimony of the gospel, expressed in the language of the present moment.
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(from the book's preface)