Part 1. God as friend and mother -- Models of redemption: The concept of God ; Definitions of salvation/redemption ; The doctrine of redemption ; Models of soteriology -- The pathos of God the father: God's pathos ; The pathos of God in Christian thought -- The pathos of God the mother: The image of mother ; The Hebrew scriptures ' Female redeemer ; God's pathos toward the infant child ; Wisdom literature ; Female mother/savior figures in the Greco-Roman world ; Early Christian writers -- Why crucifixion?: The shame of the cross ; Impalement and crucifixion in Jewish practice ; The crucifixion of women in antiquity ; Greco-Roman literature ; Mythical references -- The pathos friendship: Characteristics of friendship ; Definition of friendship ; Friendship in the Greco-Roman world ; Friendship in the Symposium ; Aristotle ; Epicurus ; Stoic friendship ; Friendship in the roman world ; Friendship in the Jewish world and Christian antiquity -- The pathos of wise men and women: Philosophical background ; Cynic and stoic tenets ; Plato's just one impaled ; Note on the female sage ; Women philosophers. Part 2. Friendship and motherhood in the gospel of John -- Friendship in the gospel: Friendship in the gospels ; The prologue ; Jesus and the disciples ; Feminine texts in the book of signs ; Wisdom's feast (John 6) ; The milk of salvation in non-Christian sources ; Lactation and Roman charity -- The footwashing: Forwarding and hospitality ; False and true guest friends -- The farewell discourses: Modern Trinitarian theology and the farewell discourses ; The vine ; The birth image (John 16:16-24) -- Sovereignty, friendship, and motherhood Christ's pathos according to John: Going to calamity's depths for a friend ; Regal glory as pathos ; Jesus as friendly sovereign ; The doulos basileus of the cynics ; Feminine texts in the passion ; The sword thrust and the effusion of blood and water ; The Johannine Pentecost.