John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel
A Prologue to Theology
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 April 2019
- ISBN 9780198837534
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages408 pages
- Size 236x163x28 mm
- Weight 748 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This study brings three different kinds of readers of the Gospel of John together with the theological goal of understanding what is meant by Incarnation and how it relates to Pascha, the Passion of Christ, how this is conceived of as revelation, and how we speak of it.
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This study brings three different kinds of readers of the Gospel of John together with the theological goal of understanding what is meant by Incarnation and how it relates to Pascha, the Passion of Christ, how this is conceived of as revelation, and how we speak of it. The first group of readers are the Christian writers from the early centuries, some of whom (such as Irenaeus of Lyons) stood in direct continuity, through Polycarp of Smyrna, with John himself. In exploring these writers, John Behr offers a glimpse of the figure of John and the celebration of Pascha, which held to have started with him.
The second group of readers are modern scriptural scholars, from whom we learn of the apocalyptic dimensions of John's Gospel and the way in which it presents the life of Christ in terms of the Temple and its feasts. With Christ's own body, finally erected on the Cross, being the true Temple in an offering of love rather than a sacrifice for sin. An offering in which Jesus becomes the flesh he offers for consumption, the bread which descends from heaven, so that 'incarnation' is not an event now in the past, but the embodiment of God in those who follow Christ in the present.
The third reader is Michel Henry, a French Phenomenologist, whose reading of John opens up further surprising dimensions of this Gospel, which yet align with those uncovered in the first parts of this work. This thought-provoking work brings these threads together to reflect on the nature and task of Christian theology.
This is an important, highly learned work on the reception of John's Gospel and the ways that its message shape both theology and Christian practice. Scholars, theologians, and historians of interpretation will be edified by this book, as it pertains to the ways that different communities read the same scripture differently, as well as the way that the book illuminates relationships between interpretation, theology, and practice as it pertains to the Gospel of John.
Table of Contents:
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Gospel of John and Christian Theology
Part I: John The Theologian And His Paschal Gospel
John the Evangelist
The Paschal Gospel
Part II: 'It Is Finished'
'The Temple of his Body'
'Behold the Human Being'
The Prologue as a Paschal Hymn
Part III: The Phenomenology of Life in Flesh
Johannine Arch-Intelligibility
History, Phenomenology, and Theology
Conclusion: A Prologue to Theology
Bibliography
Index of cited passages
Index of authors
