Theology and History in the Fourth Gospel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theology and History in the Fourth Gospel write by Jörg Frey. This book was released on 2018. Theology and History in the Fourth Gospel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Fourth Gospel is deeply shaped by its remarkably high Christology. It depicts the earthly Jesus, the incarnate one, as fully divine. This unrelenting Christology has led interpreters, both ancient and modern, to question the historical value of John's Gospel. For many, the Gospel is just theology. It is to the vexed relationship between history and theology that Jörg Frey turns in Theology and History in the Fourth Gospel. John's theological obsession with Christology might suggest that history counts for little in the Gospel. But, as Frey argues, the Gospel's clear and central claim is that John narrates the story of Jesus of Nazareth, his ministry, and his death, as "factual," and that this narrated "history" is foundational for the Christian message. Frey traces the Gospel's use of the available historical tradition by chiefly drawing from Mark and the Johannine community. Even if the Gospel of John used this received witness in a remarkably free manner, replotting and renarrating traditional episodes and even creatively staging new episodes, Frey contends that the historical life and person of Jesus remain central to John's enterprise. In the end, Frey warns that Johannine interpretation will miss the intention of the Gospel and the interpretive perspective of the evangelist if it remains preoccupied merely with questions of historical accuracy. The interpretive goal is to "let John be John," and, as Frey shows, readers will always yield to the priority of theology over history in the Fourth Gospel. In John's telling of the Christ story, the significance of history lies precisely in its disclosure of theological meaning, just as the significance of the historical Jesus is only understood in the theological language of Christology.
The Christology of the Fourth Gospel
The Christology of the Fourth Gospel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Christology of the Fourth Gospel write by William R. G. Loader. This book was released on 1992. The Christology of the Fourth Gospel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christology is at the heart of the theology of the fourth gospel. Since Bultmann's impressive synthesis much has been written about its individual themes and motifs, its sources and history. The present study sets out to identify the basic structure of Johannine christology and to show how it underlies and integrates the various motifs and themes which surface in the transmitted text of the gospel. From the perspective gained through this analysis it re-examines the major issues of Johannine christology and their significance for understanding the gospel, both in its setting and in our own.
The Christology of the Fourth Gospel
The Christology of the Fourth Gospel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Christology of the Fourth Gospel write by Paul N. Anderson. This book was released on 2010-01-01. The Christology of the Fourth Gospel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This important work not only contributes to understanding the origins and character of John's christological tensions, but it also outlines a new set of theories regarding several innovative dialogical approaches to the Johannine text. In his new introduction to this edition, Anderson engages constructively the responses of his reviewers and outlines his own theories regarding John's dialogical autonomy. Posing a comprehensive new synthesis regarding John's composition, situation history, relations to Synoptic traditions, agency Christology, historicity, and theological tensions, Anderson here summarizes his most significant theories published since it first appeared. In so doing, advances suggested by this pivotal text are laid out in a new set of paradigms addressing the Johannine riddles in fuller detail.
Theology and Christology in the Fourth Gospel
Theology and Christology in the Fourth Gospel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theology and Christology in the Fourth Gospel write by Gilbert van Belle. This book was released on 2005. Theology and Christology in the Fourth Gospel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Greater Than Caesar
Greater Than Caesar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greater Than Caesar write by Tom Thatcher. This book was released on 2009. Greater Than Caesar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finding The Victor On The Cross Christianity emerged in a world that was thoroughly dominated by the Roman Empire. New Testament documents both reflect and react to this domination in a number of ways. Tom Thatcher contends that the author of the Gospel of John, far from creating an exclusively other-worldly spirituality, was concerned to show that Christ was greater than Roman imperial power and that Jesus' mission and the church's faith signified its end. Book jacket.
