This Oak & Linden Classics edition of Benson's classic work is not a text or image scan. It has been newly typeset in an attractive modern edition. The text has been proofed against the original publication. The scripture citations of the original text have been checked for accuracy and modernized."If then there is anything clear in the Gospels it is this—that Jesus Christ first and foremost desires our friendship. It is His reproach to the world, not that the Saviour came to the lost, and that the lost ran from Him to lose themselves more deeply, not that the Creator came to the Creature and that the Creature rejected Him; but that the Friend 'came unto His own, and that His own received Him not.' (1 John 1:11)""I have called you friends," Jesus says to us. This little book reveals how we can enter more deeply into a true friendship with him: in ourselves and in others; in the Church and the Eucharist; in Jesus's words from the Cross; and in his Resurrection. This friendship is not a metaphor, or hopelessly one-sided, but a full and free exchange of selves.In his characteristically elegant prose, Robert Hugh Benson draws us into Christ's burning desire for a real, reciprocal, and ever-deepening relationship with each one of us.Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), the son of the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury and brother of novelist E.F. Benson, was ordained a Catholic priest in 1904. He was a prolific writer, composing poems, plays, novels, and numerous sermons and devotional works. Lord of the World, his apocalyptic novel, has been praised by Pope Francis as being prophetic.
✔ Author(s): Robert Hugh Benson,Catherine Hodge
✔ Title: The Friendship of Christ
✔ Rating : 4.6 out of 5 base on (78 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: 1735851329
✔ ISBN-13: 9781735851327
✔ Language: English
✔ Format ebook: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, HTML and MOBI
✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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