Do You Love Me? : Jesus Questions the Church

by Crosby, Michael H.

• ISBN13: 9781570752360
• ISBN10: 1570752362
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

Throughout the Gospel of John Jesus poses a series of questions: "What are you looking for?" "Do you want to be healed?" "Why do I speak to you at all?" as well as the most poignant, addressed to Peter, "Do you love me?" Michael Crosby's reflections on these questions take us into the heart of John's gospel. He highlights an important theme: the tension between a model of the church that gives emphasis to the Petrine principle of apostolic authority and a model of the church -- characterized by the Beloved Disciple -- that gives greater emphasis to loving service and discipleship. As Crosby shows, it is in balancing the roles of both Peter and the Beloved Disciple that the church best reflects the spirit of Christ.

Author Biography

Michael H. Crosby, Capuchin-Franciscan, is a writer and lecturer

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Prologue: Do You Now Believe? The Question at the Heart of the Farewell Address (14:1--17:26) and John's Prologue (1:1-18)	xiii
Part I: Jesus and Entrenched Religion
What Are You Looking For?
The Question of John 1:19--4:54	3	(23)
Do You Want to Be Healed?
The Question of John 5:1-47	26	(14)
Does This Offend You? Do You also Wish to Go Away?
The Questions of John 6:1-71	40	(17)
Why Do I Speak to You at All?
The Questions of John 7:1--8:59	57	(16)
Woman, Where Are They? Has No One Condemned You?
The Questions of John 7:53--8:11	73	(14)
Do You Believe in the Son of Man?
The Question of John 9:1-41	87	(20)
For Which of These Are You Going to Stone Me?
The Question of John 10:1-39	107	(20)
Did I Not Tell You That If You Believed, You Would See the Glory of God?
The Question of John 10:40--12:19	127	(15)
Transition: What Should I Say---``Father, Save Me from This Hour''?
The Question of John 12:20-50	142	(9)
Part II: Peter and the Beloved Disciple
Do You Know What I Have Done to You?
The Question of John 13:1-38	151	(18)
If I Have Spoken Rightly, Why Do You Strike Me?
The Question of Jesus before Annas in John 18:1-27	169	(14)
Do You Love Me?
The Threefold Question of John 21:1-19	183	(16)
If It Is My Will That This One [the Beloved Disciple] Remain until I Come, What Is That to You?
The Question of John 21:20-25	199	(13)
Epilogue: What Does It Mean for Us to Remain as Beloved Disciples?	212	(11)
Notes	223	(28)
Index	251