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Against Abba's Heart: Meditations on the Gospel of John Chapters 1-4

Against Abba's Heart: Meditations on the Gospel of John Chapters 1-4

Elzner, Joshua

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Bible StudiesCatholicism

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN13: 9798349620843
Publisher: At the Wellspring Publishing
Published: May 21 2025
Pages: 358
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The Gospel of John is in a special way the Gospel of love and intimacy. It is the Gospel of belovedness, in which we are granted a particularly vivid insight into the immense love that God the Father has for his beloved Son, and (without any diminution!) for each one of us. The Son himself tells us at the Last Supper: As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you (Jn 15:9), which, if translated more accurately, would read: With the very love with which the Father has loved me, so have I loved you, meaning: With the Father's love, given first to me, I have loved you. And he also soon adds: The Father himself loves you (16:27). During this supper, one of the disciples, the one whom Jesus loved (13:23), leans against the breast of Christ, reposing against his very bosom. This is a beautifully intimate moment, for at this meal Jesus opens his Heart vulnerably before those who are closest to him, before his Apostles. In their presence he addresses his heavenly Father in prayer, thereby drawing them into the ineffable bond of love and intimacy between the Father and the Son, with the breath of the Spirit ever passing between them in their ceaseless dialogue.

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