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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
doaj   +3 more sources

The Johannine prologue: A hermeneutical key to the community theme

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
doaj   +6 more sources

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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The identification and examination of the elements that caused a schism in the Johannine community at the end of the first century CE

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2007
A group of people within the Johannine community (2:18) contributed towards destroying the fellowship of this community. Because 1 and 2 John do not provide direct evidence of the identities of the community’s heretically inclined members, they are ...
Dirk van der Merwe
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The Johannine Community as a Constructed, Imagined Community [PDF]

, 2016
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Raimo Hakola
openaire   +4 more sources

Critical theory and Johannine mission a test case: the Johannine community as divine communicative action [PDF]

, 2014
This dissertation explores the potential for utilizing Jurgen Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action (TCA) as a hermeneutical method in biblical studies—in this case—Johannine agency and mission. The thesis is developed by means of TCA and four “contextual anchor points.” These components of critical and literary theory are used in a sequential ...
Steven David Galbo
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The Community That Raymond Brown Left Behind: Reflections on the Johannine Dialectical Situation

, 2013
Among the paradigm-making contributions in Johannine studies over the last half century, one of the most significant is the sketching of “the community of the Beloved Disciple” by Raymond E. Brown (Brown 1979). Extending beyond Johannine studies, Brown’s
Anderson, Paul N.
core   +2 more sources

Historical Method and the Johannine Community

Arc: The Journal of the School of Religious Studies, 1992
Frederik Wisse
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Footwashing in John 13 and the Johannine Community [PDF]

Journal of Biblical Literature, 1993
Charles H. Talbert, John Christopher Thomas   +1 more
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