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The Johannine prologue: A hermeneutical key to the community theme [PDF]

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2022
As John wrote to a community grappling with incarnating its communalistic values, he furnishes readers with remedies for addressing such sociocultural maladies.
Godibert K. Gharbin, Ernest van Eck
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Did the Johannine Community Exist? [PDF]

Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2020
This article challenges the historical existence of the ‘Johannine community’ – a hypothesized group of ancient churches sharing a distinctive theological outlook. Scholars posit such a community to explain the similarities of John to 1, 2 and 3 John as well as the epistles’ witness to a network of churches.
Hugo Méndez
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Text, Context and the Johannine Community: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Johannine Writings [PDF]

Tyndale Bulletin, 2012
1. The Rise and Fall of a Paradigm? The Johannine Community in Recent Scholarship 2. The Community of the Beloved Disciple: The Development of Raymond Brown's Model of Community 3. Text and Context: The Contribution of Sociolinguistic Theories of Register 4. The Antilanguage Antisociety: The Contribution of Sociological Commentators 5.
David A. Lamb
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‘Humanhood’ in the Gospel of John

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
This article is an attempt to explore the theme of ‘humanhood’ in the Fourth Gospel. The most important questions to be posed at the outset are the following: who is the model human presented in the gospel as per the Johannine community standards?
Johnson Thomaskutty
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The true vine and the branches: Exploring the community ideation in John 15:1–16:3

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023
An exploration of the Johannine narrative reveals that John addresses the problem of the relational dimension of a believing community as one of its ‘authorial intentions’.
Godibert K. Gharbin, Ernest Van Eck
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Building a united community: Reading the Johannine concept of unity through the eyes of an Akan

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
From the 1960s, African theologians sought to decolonise biblical scholarship, calling for a hermeneutical approach that pays attention to the African sociocultural context – inculturation.
Godibert K. Gharbin, Ernest van Eck
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Ideological and Intertextual Relations Between the Targum Isaiah and the Gospel of John

Collectanea Theologica, 2023
In this article, the author asks whether there are ideological and intertextual connections between the Targum Isaiah and the Gospel of St. John, and whether the traditions contained in the targums could have influenced the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth
Mirosław Wróbel
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Genealogies of Truth: Theology, Philosophy and History

Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 708-727, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Modern Christian theology still seeks to escape from the historical constitution of truth. This not only contradicts the Incarnation, but has its own genealogical origins in a dubious loss of Christian philosophy as an integral enterprise. In general, genealogy can be seen as negative or positive.
John Milbank
wiley   +1 more source

“THE GOD WITH CLAY”: THE IDEA OF DEEP INCARNATION AND THE INFORMATIONAL UNIVERSE

Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 683-713, September 2023., 2023
Abstract This article explores the relations between the idea of deep incarnation and scientific ideas of an informational universe, in which mass, energy, and information belong together. It is argued that the cosmic Christologies developed in the vein of Cappadocian theology (fourth century) and the Franciscan theologian Bonaventure (thirteenth ...
Niels Henrik Gregersen
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Reading John 11:1-45 from a post-normal times perspective

Acta Theologica, 2022
This article re-reads John 11:1-45 in light of post-normal times. It analyses aspects such as 4Ss, 3Cs, and 3Ts, in order to expound on the Johannine community situation and to understand the paradigmatic significance of John’s narrative artistry within
J. Thomaskutty
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