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Love in the Gospel of John: An Exegetical, Theological, and Literary Study is unavailable, but you can change that!

The command to love is central to the Gospel of John. This capstone work on John’s Gospel uses a narrative approach to delve deeply into the theme at the heart of the Fourth Gospel and the life of the Christian church. Uniting rigorous exegesis with theological and pastoral insight, Love in the Gospel of John makes a substantive contribution to contemporary Johannine scholarship. Internationally...

the two expressions, we need not resolve the matter here.5 However, with a summary glance at the passages using φιλέω we can see that some of the themes mentioned in the previous paragraph return. The Father loves the Son (5:20), Jesus loves Lazarus (11:3, 36), the one who loves his life loses it (12:25), the world loves its own (15:19), the Father loves the disciples (16:27), and Jesus loves “the other disciple” (20:2). The main difference is the use of φιλέω to refer to the negative loves of
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