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 Fourth Gospel write by John Shelby Spong. This book was released on 2013-06-11. The Fourth Gospel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bestselling and controversial bishop and teacher John Shelby Spong reveals the subversive, mystical wisdom of the writer of the Gospel of John and how his teachings point us forward in the twenty-first century In The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic, Spong turns his attention to the Gospel of John, the fourth Gospel in the Bible. Contrary to what is most often believed, he writes that this gospel was misinterpreted by the framers of the fourth-century creeds to be a literal account of the life of Jesus. In fact, it is a literary, interpretive retelling of the events in Jesus’ life through the medium of Jewish worship traditions and fictional characters, from Nicodemus and Lazarus to the “Beloved Disciple.” The Fourth Gospel not only recaptures the original message of this gospel, but also provides us with a radical new dimension to the claim that in the humanity of Jesus the reality of God has been met and engaged. This book offers a fresh way to read the Gospel of John and a unique primer about how to be a Christian in the post-Christian twenty-first century.
Theology and History in the Fourth Gospel
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.
Understanding the Fourth Gospel
Understanding 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 Understanding the Fourth Gospel write by John Ashton. This book was released on 2007-04-26. Understanding the Fourth Gospel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arguing that the thought-world of the Gospel is Jewish, not Greek, and that the text is composed over an extended period as the evangelist responded to the changing situation of the community, this book offers a partial answer to a key question: how did Christianity emerge from Judaism?
Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel
Symbolism 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 Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel write by Craig R. Koester. This book was released on 2003-02-19. Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Craig Koester's respected study uses the symbolic language of the Gospel of John as a focus to explore "the Gospel's literary dimensions, social and historical context, and theological import." This edition is fully revised and updated and includes a number of new sections on such topics as Judas and the knowledge of God. Fresh treatments are given on a number of issues, including the Gospel's Christology. This new edition offers both new insights and proven worth for students and scholars alike.
History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel
History and Theology 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 History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel write by James Louis Martyn. This book was released on 2003-01-01. History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume, a part of the New Testament Library series, surveys the scholarly work that has been done concerning the book of John. J. Louis Martyn also provides his own reading of the forth Gospel. The New Testament Library offers authoritative commentary on every book and major aspect of the New Testament, as well as classic volumes of scholarship. The commentaries in this series provide fresh translations based on the best available ancient manuscripts, offer critical portrayals of the historical world in which the books were created, pay careful attention to their literary design, and present a theologically perceptive exposition of the text.
