Jesus As Witnessed By the Disciple He Loved: A commentary on the gospel of John, by Alan Asay
Author: Alan Asay. Review by Joanna Godfrey Wood.
The gospel of John has often been called the ‘Quaker gospel’, mainly, perhaps, because of its many references to light, which chime with much Quaker theological conversation today. Early Quakers were greatly inspired by this gospel, and it gives each new generation of Friends much food for thought. Alan Asay, who as a young man changed his field of study from New Testament Greek to the law, promised himself that he would one day return to John’s writing. Fifty years later, ‘It is as wonderful as I remembered’, he tells us.
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