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Making the Focal Map of Johannine Studies: A Survey of Modern Scholarship
The most studied text the four gospels is the Gospel of John, which is also known as the Fourth Gospel. Academics have been prolific in their study of it, using many different methods and coming up with numerous questions and answers related to the text.
Bilal Patacı
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Celebrating Synodality: Synodality as a Fundamental Aspect of Christian Liturgy
Abstract A synodal church makes assumptions about our basic ecclesial experience which takes place when we assemble liturgically, especially when we act eucharistically. The basic assumption is that we are a genuine human community knowing and relating to one another as brothers and sisters in baptism.
Thomas O' Loughlin
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Solitude in the multitude: A Christological response to loneliness in the Akan community of God
The amphibious Akan concept of community manifests both individualistic and communalistic features. An analysis of the individualistic features reveals that the Akans grapple with incarnating their values, leaving many ‘children of God’ lonely.
Godibert K. Gharbin, Ernest van Eck
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Reframing Anselm and Aquinas on Atonement
Abstract Thomas Aquinas's vision of atonement is generally considered more conceptually expansive than Anselm of Canterbury's. Where Aquinas's multipartite account of Christ's passion incorporates a variety of biblical motifs, Anselm appears to narrow the focus to satisfactory debt‐repayment alone. This article proposes two approaches for reframing the
Rachel Cresswell
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Reading the Fourth Gospel in the COVID-19 pandemic context
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic situation persuades a reader of the Fourth Gospel to interpret the Scripture in new lights. In the contemporary context, the gospel of John has the potential to attune the attention of the reader towards ...
Johnson Thomaskutty
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This article focuses on the portrait of Jesus as depicted by the Johannine community according to John 9. Exploring the perspectives of Johannine scholars, the historical context of the Gospel of John, and the image of Johannine faith community, this ...
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The irony of ability and disability in John 9:1–41
The story of the man born blind is constructed within a grand irony of ability and disability. The Johannine narrator develops the characterisation of the man born blind as a progressive, seeing and missional personality, whereas all others in the story ...
Johnson Thomaskutty
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Transcendentality and Conversation: On the Trinity and ‘Word‐Exchange’
Abstract This article considers how the notions of ‘word’ and ‘conversation’ can contribute to contemporary developments in theological metaphysics by drawing on Christoph Schwöbel’s ontological rendition of Martin Luther’s theology. By way of reading Schwöbel’s theological ontology of conversation with reference to John Milbank’s theology of the gift,
King‐Ho Leung
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Normal, post-normal and new normal: A theology of hope in John 20:1–29
This article re-reads John 20:1–29 to foreground the normal, the post-normal and the new normal realities within the Johannine resurrection narrative.
Johnson Thomaskutty
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Origen’s Johannine Trinitarian Theology of Love
Abstract Origen is the first Christian who proposed a systematically Trinitarian theology of love. This has largely escaped the attention of theologians and remains underexplored. One notable consequence is that this has severely limited our appreciation of Origen as a significant interlocutor for contemporary theology since the Trinity as love is ...
Pui Him Ip
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