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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 world, but that the world might be saved through him” (3:16–17), we find it is the action of God’s loving that initiated the presence of Jesus in the world. As Jesus states later in the story, “No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (15:13 NRSV). Laying down one’s life is not about words but about action. The following study will focus on the actions of a God who sends, on the task of the Johannine Jesus to make God known, on the manner in which this God
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