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A Love Supreme: A History of the Johannine Tradition

A Love Supreme: A History of the Johannine TraditionA Love Supreme: A History of the Johannine Tradition

A Love Supreme

A History of the Johannine Tradition

Allen Dwight Callahan (Author)

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Callahan suggests that scholars have wrongly placed the sequence and therefore the importance of the works collectively known as the Johannine tradition — the Gospel of John and the Johannine Epistles. His proposal includes literary, theological, and historical analysis as he argues for the reevaluation of a significant part of the biblical canon.

  • Publisher Fortress Press
  • Format Paperback
  • ISBN 9780800637088
  • Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
  • Pages 138
  • Publication Date January 31, 2005

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"The Johannine Epistles — are the literary beginnings of a process that ultimately bears fruit in a narrative representation of Jesus. In the Epistles of John and the Gospel of John, we learn that the greatest love is to live for one's friends. Love is how one lives, not how one dies, and one may only die in love as one lives in love. No one has greater love than to put one's life at the disposal of those one loves."
— from the Prologue

Table of Contents

      Prologue

  1. Root Conflict
  2. Disciples of the Beloved Community
  3. The Spiritual Gospel
  4. In Those Parts
  5. Love in extremis
  6. A King of Shreds and Patches
  7. Epilogues

    Abbreviations
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index of Ancient Sources
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