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 Ernest Findlay Scott. This book was released on 1908. The Fourth Gospel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
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.
The Fourth Gospel
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 Ernest Findlay Scott. This book was released on 1906. The Fourth Gospel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Fourth Gospel, Its Purpose and Theology
The Fourth Gospel, Its Purpose and Theology - 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, Its Purpose and Theology write by Ernest Findlay Scott. This book was released on 1914. The Fourth Gospel, Its Purpose and Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Fourth Gospel; Its Purpose and Theology
The Fourth Gospel; Its Purpose and Theology - 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; Its Purpose and Theology write by Ernest Findlay Scott. This book was released on 2013-09. The Fourth Gospel; Its Purpose and Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV ECCLESIASTICAL AIMS THE Fourth Gospel closes with a short epilogue, added apparently when the work was first made public after the writer's death. One purpose of this epilogue, however we may explain it otherwise, is undoubtedly to present the Gospel to the world with some kind of official sanction. A body of men who can speak with acknowledged authority set their imprimatur on "the witness of this disciple." The fact is highly important, indicating as it does that the Church from the first accepted the Gospel as a manifesto. The evangelist had not spoken merely in his own name, but had laid down once for all the principles of the common faith. We have already seen that the polemic of the Gospel has a representative character. John identifies himself with the Church in its various antagonisms, taking for granted that he only defines the common Christian position. "We speak that which we know, and testify that which we have seen." It is a controversy of parties, -- the Church against the Jews and the Baptists. The arguments of the Gospel carry weight because they express the mind of the whole party, not simply that of the individual writer. In one respect, therefore, the judgment implied in the epilogue appears to be well founded. So far as it is a work of controversy, the Gospel was written deliberately in the name of the Church, and contains its authoritative reply to the criticisms of the hostile sects. There is reason to believe, however, that in a wider and in a more intimate sense John wrote as representing the Church. It might seem at first sight as if no work could have less bearing on mere ecclesiastical interests than this "spiritual Gospel." We think of its author as a contemplative nature, withdrawn from the tumult...
