The Johannine Exegesis of God

Name: The Johannine Exegesis of God | An Exploration into the Johannine Understanding of God
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An Exploration into the Johannine Understanding of God

Daniel Rathnakara Sadananda(Autor*in)

De Gruyter (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 2. Dezember 2014

XIV, 356 Seiten

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Intro
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Introduction
1.1 The Quest
1.2 The Problem of the Theology of the New Testament
1.3 The Theological Re-Reading
1.4 Theology in Christological Captivity?
1.5 Travails of a Theological Quest - Compositional History of the Fourth Gospel
1.6 Theologising History - Historidty of the Fourth Gospel
1.7 Theological Re-Reading of the Fourth Gospel - Towards Understanding the Johannine Exegesis of God
Chapter Two: Is Jesus God? Thomas' Confession in the Light of the Passion Narrative
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Thomas' Confession - "My Lord, My God"
2.3 Self-Giving Jesus - Composure and Sovereignty in the Midst of Betrayal and Arrest
2.4 Jesus - The Pascal Lamb
2.5 The Trial of Jesus - The Man, The King
2.6 Mission Completed - Jesus Heralds Victory Even in Death
2.7 That You may Believe - Jesus the Christ, the Son of God
2.8 Summary and Conclusions
Chapter Three: Theology in Conflict - Is Jesus Equal to God? (John 5:17-30)
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Order of Chapters Five and Six
3.3 The Pericope
3.4 The Structure
3.5 TheContext
3.6 Exegesis
3.6.1 Verses 17-18: Overture - Is Jesus Equal to God?
3.6.2 Verses 19-30: The Father and the Son - Relationship Explained
3.7 Summary and Conclusions
Chapter Four: Theology in Conflict - Is Jesus Pre-existent? (John 8:12-59)
4.1 The Literary Structure
4.2 The Context
4.3 Exegesis
4.3.1 Verses 12-20: Jesus the Light of the World - the Authority of Jesus' Witness
4.3.2 Verses 21-30: Jesus the One from Above - The Origin of Jesus' Authority
4.3.3 Verses 31-34: Truth and Liberation
4.3.4 Verses 35-36: Operation Liberation
4.3.5 Verses 37-47: God's Party and the Devil's Party
4.3.6 Verses 48-59: Jesus the Pre-existent Son is the Revealer and Embodiment of Salvation
4.4 Summary and Conclusions
Chapter Five: Theology in Conflict - Are Jesus and the Father One? (John 10:22-39)
5.1 The Context
5.2 The Structure
5.3 Exegesis
5.3.1 Verses 22-30: Oneness of the Father and the Son
5.3.2 Verses 31-39: Mutual In-dwelling of the Father and the Son
5.4 Summary and Conclusions
Chapter Six: The God of the Johannine Jesus: Characterisation of God in the Prayer of Jesus (John 17:1-26)
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Exegesis
6.2.1 Verses 1-5: The True God
6.2.2 Verses 6-10: The God who gives identity
6.2.3 Verses 11-15: The God who protects
6.2.4 Verses 16-19: The God who sanctifies
6.2.5 Verses 20-23: The God who unites
6.2.6 Verses 23b-26: The God who loves
6.3 Summary and Conclusions
Chapter Seven: Incamate Logos as Historical Theophany (John 1:1-18)
7.1 Integrity of the Prologue
7.1.1 In Search of a pre-Johannine Hymn
7.1.2 The Prologue is a Unity
7.1.3 Analysis
7.1.4 A Possible Solution
7.2 The Logos - A Search for a Mythological Context
7.2.1 The Origin
7.2.2 Old Testament Wisdom Tradition?
7.2.3 Philonic Exegesis of the Old Testament?
7.2.4 Targumic Traditions?
7.2.5 Gnostidsm?
7.2.6 Analysis
7.3 Exegesis
7.3.1 Verses 1-2: The Logos and God
7.3.2 Verses 3-5: The Logos and the World
7.3.3 Verses 6-8: Witness to and Interpreter of God's Acts in the World - God's Human Instrument 'the Man' John
7.3.4 Verses 9-13: God's A-historical Presence and Covenant with the World through the Logos
7.3.5 Verses 14-18: The Incarnation and the Exegesis of God - a Historical Theophany
7.4 Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 8: Theology in Dialogue - Dialogue with the Considerate Jews (John 3:1-21)
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Exegesis
8.2.1 Verses 3-6: God Creates a New Eschatological Community
8.2.2 Verses 7-8: A New Community - The Sign of God's Freedom to Act
8.2.3 Verses 9-15: Jesus - The Normative Determinant to Understand God's Action
8.2.4 Verses 16-17: Jesus - The Metaphor of the Self-emptying God
8.2.5 Verses 18-21: Only a Self-emptying Community. Can Represent a Self-emptying God
8.3 Summary and Conclusions
Chapter Nine: Theology in Dialogue - Dialogue with the Samaritans (John 4:1-42)
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Exegesis
9.2.1 Verses 5-6: The Place of the Dialogue
9.2.2 Verses 7-15: Dialogue on God's Gift which Transcends all Traditions
9.2.3 Verses 16-26: Dialogue on God's Worship, the Centre of a New Tradition
9.2.4 Verses 27-38: Dialogue on God's Will - The Basis of New Traditions
9.2.5 Verses 39-42: The Dialogue's Ultimate Goal - Recognising the God-sent Saviour and Confessing the Saviour-hood of God
9.3 Summary and Conclusions
Chapter Ten: Revelation Continued - the Authentic Theology: The Paraclete and the Understanding of God
10.1 Composition of the Farewell Discourses
10.2 The Paraclete - God's Comforting and Challenging Presence
10.3 The Paraclete - Re-enactor of God's Revelation in Teaching and Remembering
10.4 God Creates the Possibility of 'Authentic Witness' in the Face of the World's Vicious Contempt through Paraclete
10.5 The Paraclete Creates a 'Mirror Model' of God's World
10.6 The Paraclete - the Sign of God's Revelation Continued
10.7 Summary and Conclusions
Chapter Eleven: Conclusion: Johannine Exegesis of God
11.1 The Characterisation of God in the Fourth Gospel
11.2 Johannine Theo-centric Christology
11.2.1 Agent Christology
11.2.2 Mediator Christology
11.2.3 'I am' Christology
11.2.4 Oneness Christology
11.3 Theological Hermeneutic
11.4 Whither Theo-logy?
Bibliography
Select Index of References
Index of Modern Authors

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