Love Set Free

Love Set Free Meditations on Christ's Passion

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We think of love as being selfless and unsullied, but when is it not mixed up with something else - such as the desire to possess, the need to control, the need to be needed or the instinct to foster our own self interest? In these meditations on the Passion narratives in John's Gospel, Martin L. Smith shows how, in the Christian mystery, love as we often understand it must die in order to be reborn as the grace of communion, as love set free. As Mary the mother of Jesus and the Beloved Disciple pledge themselves to each other's care at the foot of the cross, we see Jesus' new commandment that we love one another placed directly in the vortex of his death and self-offering. Here, all sentimental or selfish notions of love are transformed. As the Beloved Disciple takes Mary into his home, this book shows us a model household of faith from which the church's authentic identity derives its origin.

Book information

ISBN: 9781848251007
Publisher: Hymns Ancient & Modern
Imprint: Canterbury Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 232.96
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 61
Weight: 74g
Height: 130mm
Width: 197mm
Spine width: 6mm