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future. The parents, the friend, the lover guards logical paradigm of friendship. John the Bap-
the future of the loved one and the possibili�es �st's speech is a fundamental reference when
of the fulfillment of his future. he states that he must diminish himself for Je-
In the same perspec�ve, Mikhail Bakh�n (BAK- sus to appear in His Greatness. The love pre-
HTIN, M. The Dialogic Imagina�on: Four Essays sented here does not imply that decreasing
by M. M. Bakh�n. Aus�n and London: Universi- one’s own self abolish the value of oneself, on
ty of Texas Press, 1981.) pointed out in his the contrary, this ac�on expands the experi-
works that, it is the Other who loves us, who ence of oneself through love openness to the
will keep the totality of ourselves in his memo- other. That is Love as a reflec�on of the Christ´s
ry. Totality that has not yet happened. Also, Vla- Love: Kenosis.
dimir Solovyov states that love is necessarily
zealous, because it guards the good that the
loved person is for us and could become in his
future. The loving presence of others sustains
the value of oneself. A person's resilience hap-
pens through the memory of the other's love
within himself.
The perspec�ve presented here can be consi-
dered in the rela�onship between Jesus Christ
and John the Bap�st, a rela�onship discussed
by the Chris�an tradi�on as presen�ng an onto-

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