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Redefining love: Engaging the Johannine and Akan concepts of love through dialogic hermeneutics

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
Both the Johannine and Akan cultures are described in scholarly literature as collectivistic communities that value love as a communal value. Nonetheless, a scholarly analysis of the Akan concept reveals that Akan proverbial tradition promotes love ...
Godibert K. Gharbin, Ernest Van Eck
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Jesus’ Spirituality of [Af]filiation in the Fourth Gospel

Religions, 2022
The spirituality of Jesus, embedded within the literary contours of the Johannine narrative, is primarily grounded in a relationship of affiliation and friendship.
Dorothy A. Lee
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The Bible in the Early Church, Justo L. González, Eerdmans, 2022 (ISBN 978‐0‐8028‐8174‐8), x + 198 pp., pb £19.99

, 2023
Reviews in Religion &Theology, Volume 30, Issue 1-2, Page 51-53, January-April 2023.
Alex Michael Trew
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Thinking with Origen Today: Hermeneutical Challenges and Future Directions

, 2022
Modern Theology, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 191-203, April 2022.
Pui Him Ip
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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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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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The Johannine Community as a Constructed, Imagined Community [PDF]

, 2016
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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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