Q&R with Brad Jersak: Abba vs. Father?

Brad Jersak Question: If I understand you right, In your books A More Christlike God, A More Christlike Way and IN: Incarnation & Inclusion, Abba & Lamb, you argue the uniqueness of Jesus is to reveal Abba — Daddy. I want to believe that. However, as you know better than me, the word Ἀββά only appears three times in the NT: twice where Paul is talking about adoption (Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6); and only once on the lips of Jesus, in Gethsemane (Mark 14:36). On the plus side, all three actually say “Ἀββά ὁ πατήρ”, implying their equivalence. However, the remaining references (I counted 268) to God as “Fathe...