A Masterpiece! A Devotional and Scholarly Classic. A book you will love and treasure - William Temple’s Magnum Opus, originally published in two volumes in 1938/39. His aim is to share with us what the Holy Spirit says to him through this Gospel. This book can be used as a commentary, for daily devotion and for sermon preparation.
Temple wrote: “As long as I can remember I have had more love for St. John’s Gospel than for any other book. Bishop Gore once said to me that he paid visits to St. John as to a fascinating foreign country, but he came home to St. Paul. With me the precise opposite is true. St. Paul is the exciting, and also rather bewildering, adventure; with St. John I am at home.”
William Temple was a priest in the Church of England. He served as Bishop of Manchester (1921–29), Archbishop of York (1929–42), and Archbishop of Canterbury (1942–44).
A renowned teacher and preacher, Temple is perhaps best known for his 1942 book Christianity and Social Order, which set out an Anglican social theology and a vision for what would constitute a just post-war society. Also in 1942, with Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz, Temple jointly founded the Council of Christians and Jews to combat anti-Jewish bigotry.
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