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John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel - A Prologue to Theology (Hardcover)
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John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel - A Prologue to Theology (Hardcover)
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This study brings three different kinds of readers of the Gospel of
John together with the theological goal of understanding what is
meant by Incarnation and how it relates to Pascha, the Passion of
Christ, how this is conceived of as revelation, and how we speak of
it. The first group of readers are the Christian writers from the
early centuries, some of whom (such as Irenaeus of Lyons) stood in
direct continuity, through Polycarp of Smyrna, with John himself.
In exploring these writers, John Behr offers a glimpse of the
figure of John and the celebration of Pascha, which held to have
started with him. The second group of readers are modern scriptural
scholars, from whom we learn of the apocalyptic dimensions of
John's Gospel and the way in which it presents the life of Christ
in terms of the Temple and its feasts. With Christ's own body,
finally erected on the Cross, being the true Temple in an offering
of love rather than a sacrifice for sin. An offering in which Jesus
becomes the flesh he offers for consumption, the bread which
descends from heaven, so that 'incarnation' is not an event now in
the past, but the embodiment of God in those who follow Christ in
the present. The third reader is Michel Henry, a French
Phenomenologist, whose reading of John opens up further surprising
dimensions of this Gospel, which yet align with those uncovered in
the first parts of this work. This thought-provoking work brings
these threads together to reflect on the nature and task of
Christian theology.
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