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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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Building a united community: Reading the Johannine concept of unity through the eyes of an Akan [PDF]
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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Understanding �sin� in the Johannine epistles
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2005 The author of the Johannine Epistles has a good deal to say about sin. He abhors sin, seeing it as incompatible with God s character (oJ qeo;" fw`" ejstin, 1:5; [oJ qeo;"] divkaiov" ejstin, 2:29; and oJ qeo;" ajgavph ejstivn, 4:8) and with the status of
D J van der Merwe
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Conflict and Community in the Johannine Letters
Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology, 2006 The three Johannine Letters present a number of very difficult problems regarding their authorship and historical background, as well as many passages that are obscurely written and difficult to translate and interpret. Nevertheless, they also have important insights to offer regarding the nature of God, the meaning of the incarnation, and the ...
David Rensberger
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Salvation in the Johannine Epistles
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2004 This article attempts to compile a soteriology in the Johannine Epistles. Circumstances and false teachings that might have influenced the theological doctrine and ethical behaviour of the community are constructed.
Dirk G. van der Merwe
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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 ...
Galbo, S.
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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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