Allen Dwight Callahan is Visiting Professor of Religion and Society at Harvard Divinity School and Professor of New Testament at Seminario Theologico Batista do Nordeste (Brazil), and the author of Embassy of Onesimus: The Letter of Paul to Philemon (1997).
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Prologue Root Conflict Disciples of the Beloved Community The Spiritual Gospel In Those Parts Love in extremis A King of Shreds and Patches Epilogues Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index of Ancient Sources
"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."