text: Monica: I always enjoy reading your erudite comments, even if I don't always agree with them. You are forever courteous and thoughtful.
   :-)  
  That being said: The God-is-love hermeneutic is probably the liberal Christian's (both Protestant & Catholic) singular motto.  I think that evangelical Christians and traditional Catholics go in to other extreme with the God-the-Just-Judge hermeneutic.   Like Aristotle, we probably should seek out the golden mean.