Philos: A Designation for the Jesus-Disciple Relationship - An Exegetico-Theological Investigation of the Term in the Fourth Gospel

The Biblical understanding of divine-human friendship is developed by the Fourth Evangelist as a master-disciple relationship by employing the term philos. This term emphasizes both divine initiative and human response as the constitutive elements of such a relationship. This book is an exegetico-theological study of philos, which analyzes the implications of the term for the Johannine theology of friendship between Jesus and the believers.