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A Non-Polemical Reading of 1 John: Sin, Christology and the Limits of Johannine Christianity

Tyndale Bulletin, 1998
This paper offers a new paradigm for understanding the treatment of sin and Christology in 1 John that does not require gnosticising or docetic-like opponents to account for its contours. Both the ethical debate about sin (1 Jn.
Terry Griffith
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Oneness in John 17:1–26 as a paradigm for wider ecumenism and dialogue

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
This article re-reads John 17:1–26 with a focus on the theme of oneness within the micronarrative. A multilayered and polyvalent analysis of the text reveals that the theme of oneness holds the prayer together to suggest a new way forward for the ...
Johnson Thomaskutty
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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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Does John 17:11b, 21−23 refer to church unity?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011
In ecumenical circles, John 17:11b, 21–23 has been understood as Jesus’ prayer for church unity, be it confessional or structural. This article questioned such readings and conclusions from historical, literary and sosio-cultural viewpoints.
Gert J. Malan
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An Insider’s Church for Outsiders: The Johannine “Come and See” Passages and Christian Engagement with the World

Religions, 2022
The Gospel of John has a reputation among some New Testament scholars as a factional text designed to reinforce the Johannine Community’s unity amid persecution and excommunication.
Michael T. McDowell
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Of Sheep, Shepherds, and Temples: A Social Identity Reading of the Good Shepherd Paroemia on the Way to a Destroyed Temple

Conspectus, 2021
The Good Shepherd paroemia of John 10 is often read as an inserted soliloquy between the once-blind-man of John 9 and Jesus’s actions in the temple at the Feast of Dedication. In this context many readings perceive a two-level engagement drawing upon the
Christopher A. Porter
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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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1, 2 en 3 Johannes: ‘n Oorsig van die huidige stand van navorsing oor die inleidingsvraagstukke

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011
1, 2 and 3 John: An overview of the current state of research on the introductory questions This article has presented an overview of the most important positions taken on certain introductory issues related to 1, 2 and 3 John.
Jan van der Watt
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The Johannine Community as a Constructed, Imagined Community [PDF]

, 2016
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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