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Our Choice Is Obedience or Jesus as Anti-Christ by Anthony Esolen
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Crucial Witness
Glory Wrapped in Shame: An Exegetical Study of the Passion Narrative
in the Gospel of St. John, Highlighting Its Historical and Theological Insights by Abraham Oommen
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