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- The Gospel of John and Christian Origins
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
summary
One of the most challenging questions facing New Testament scholars—how did Christianity emerge from Judaism?—is often addressed in general and indirect terms. The question becomes acute, however, when we turn to the Fourth Gospel, which, like the Judaism from which it presumably sprang, affirms one God, yet also affirms the incarnation of the eternal Word and, in nascent form, what Christians will later call the Trinity––teachings that seem to set the Gospel poles apart from Judaism! John Ashton refuses any merely evolutionary explanation for this shift. Rather, he argues that the author of the Fourth Gospel set out precisely to supplant one revelation with another, and this because of the profound religious experience of the Evangelist, who turned from being a practicing Jew to experiencing a new revelation centered on Christ as the intermediary between God and humanity.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-viii
- Acknowledgements
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- Excursus I: The Gospel Genre
- pp. 23-30
- Consciousness of Genre
- pp. 31-44
- Chief Priests and Pharisees
- pp. 45-56
- The Essenes
- pp. 57-74
- Excursus II. The Johannine Community
- pp. 75-84
- The Situation of the Gospel
- pp. 85-96
- The Apocalyptic Background
- pp. 97-118
- Excursus III. The Changing Gospel
- pp. 119-132
- The Mission of the Prophet
- pp. 133-144
- Human or Divine?
- pp. 157-180
- The Johannine Christ
- pp. 181-200
- Conclusion
- pp. 201-206
- Bibliography
- pp. 207-216
- Index of Ancient Sources
- pp. 217-224
- Index of Names and Subjects
- pp. 225-229
Additional Information
ISBN
9781451479829
MARC Record
OCLC
873142187
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2014-04-22
Language
English
Open Access
No