What Do You Seek?: The Questions of Jesus as Challenge and Promise

by Michael J. Buckley SJ

Overview

Throughout the Gospels, Jesus asks a lot of questions—questions that challenge and unsettle. Questions that cut to the heart of human experience. Questions that—like a plow plunging deep into hard soil—split life open.

In this book distinguished theologian Michael Buckley meditates on fourteen key personal questions that Jesus asks in the Gospel of John—such questions as "What do you seek?" "Do you know what I have done to you?" "How can you believe?" "Do you take offense at this?" "Do you love me?"

Readers of Buckley's What Do You Seek? will be challenged anew by the searching, probing questions of Jesus.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802873958
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	10/23/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Michael J. Buckley, SJ (1931–2019) was Bea Professor of Theology at Santa Clara University. Prior to holding this position, he taught philosophical theology at Boston College, the University of Notre Dame, and the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. His publications include Denying and Disclosing God: The Ambiguous Progress of Modern Atheism and What Do You Seek? The Questions of Jesus as Challenge and Promise.

Table of Contents

Foreword Paul G. Crowley, SJ Stephen J. Pope ix

Acknowledgments xii

Introduction 1

1 "What Do You Seek?" 14

2 "Do You Know What I Have Done to You?" 23

3 "Do You Believe in the Son of Man?" 32

4 "How Can You Believe?" 40

5 "Simon, Son of John, Do You Love Me?" 51

6 "Have I Been with You So Long, and Yet You Do Not Know Me?" 59

7 "What Is This to Me and to You?" 69

8 "How Are We to Buy Bread, So That These People May Eat?" 78

9 "Do You Not Believe That I Am in the Father and the Father in Me?" 91

10 "And What Shall I Say?: 'Father, Save Me from This Hour'?" 101

11 "Shall I Not Drink the Cup: Which the Father Has Given Me?" 111

12 "Did I Not Tell You That If You Would Believe: You Would See the Glory of God?" 122

13 "Do You Take Offense at This?" 127

14 "If It Is My Will That He Remain until: I Come, What Is That to You?" 136

Scripture Index 145

Editorial Reviews

Sarah Coakley
—University of Cambridge
"Michael Buckley's lovely little book of meditations on the questions of Jesus drips with his life's scholarly learning, but with such a light touch that the reader is drawn ever more deeply into the question with which the book opens: What do you seek? This is a modern classic in the Ignatian tradition—accessible, memorable, and profound."

Lisa Cahill
—Boston College
"In this unusual and creative work, Fr. Buckley shares with a wider audience the gifts and insights that for decades have made him a revered teacher, a brilliant scholar, and an innovative interpreter of contemporary theology."

Bible Today
"Draws on a wide range of literature and a lifelong fund of mature reflection on Christian experience. This is quality spiritual reading."

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