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John and the Others - Jewish Relations, Christian Origins, and the Sectarian Hermeneutic (Hardcover)
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John and the Others - Jewish Relations, Christian Origins, and the Sectarian Hermeneutic (Hardcover)
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The Johannine literature has inspired the Church's christological
creeds, prompted its Trinitarian formulations, and resourced its
ecumenical and social movements. However, while confessional
readers find in these texts a divine love for "the world," biblical
scholars often detect a dangerous program of harsh polemics arrayed
against "the other." In this frame, the Johannine writings are
products of an anti-society with its own anti-language articulating
a worldview that is anti-ecclesiastical, anti-hierarchical, and,
more seriously, anti-Jewish and even anti-Semitic. In New Testament
studies, the prefix "anti-" has become almost Johannine. In John
and the Others, Andrew Byers challenges the "sectarian hermeneutic"
that has shaped much of the interpretation of the Gospel and
Letters of John. Rather than "anti-Jewish," we should understand
John as opposed to the exclusionary positioning of ethnicity as a
soteriological category. Neither is this stream of early
Christianity antagonistic towards the wider Christian movement. The
Fourth Evangelist openly situates his work in a crowded field of
alternative narratives about Jesus without seeking to supplant
prior works. Though John is often regarded as a "low-church"
theologian, Byers shows that the episcopal ecclesiology of Ignatius
of Antioch is compatible with Johannine theology. John does not
locate revelation solely within the personal authority of each
believer under the power of the Spirit, and so does not undercut
hierarchical leadership. Byers demonstrates that the "Other
Disciple" is actually a salutary resource for a contemporary world
steeped in the negative discourse of othering. Though John's social
vision entails othering, the negative "other" in John is ultimately
cosmic evil, and his theological convictions are grounded in the
most sweeping act of "de-othering" in history, when the divine
Other "became flesh and dwelled among us." This early Christian
tradition certainly erected boundaries, but all Johannine walls
have a "Gate"-Jesus, the Lamb of God slain for the sin of the world
that God loves.
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