The Riddles 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 Riddles of the Fourth Gospel write by Paul N. Anderson. This book was released on 2011-04. The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paul Anderson, a leading scholar of the Fourth Gospel, provides an introductory textbook, crafted for a semester course, which leads students through literary, historical, and theological aspects of the Fourth Gospel's most vexing puzzles. Traditional, historical-critical, and literary-critical approaches are deftly introduced and their limitations evaluated; questions of the Gospel's authorship, composition, relationship to the Synoptics, and origins in particular historical experiences are succinctly addressed; and distinctive Johannine perspectives on Jesus, the church, and the world are discussed.
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?
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 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.
A Prologue to Studies in the Fourth Gospel
A Prologue to Studies 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 A Prologue to Studies in the Fourth Gospel write by Riku P. Tuppurainen. This book was released on 2021-05-25. A Prologue to Studies in the Fourth Gospel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Fourth Gospel both blesses and betrays. It blesses readers who engage with its message, but it may betray those who read it nonchalantly. The notion that the Fourth Gospel is easy to understand is an enduring myth. This volume takes readers on a heuristic journey to discover the Fourth Gospel's unique theological aspects, problematic historical matters, inimitable literary features, and various interpretive approaches using an accessible format and easy-to-read language. The purpose of this publication is to enable readers to appreciate the Fourth Gospel's wide horizon, so necessary to understand its narratives in their historical and narrative contexts. Like the prologue of the Fourth Gospel that introduces and gives perspective on how readers should approach the rest of the Gospel, similarly, this volume introduces and gives perspective to studies in the Fourth Gospel. The text is divided into three parts, which examine its independent theology and argumentation, various outstanding issues, and its interpretation respectively. This volume is suitable for a wide readership, from Bible study groups to pastors and from undergraduate to graduate students.
