The Christology of the Fourth Gospel
Author : Paul N. Anderson
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161457791
Author : Paul N. Anderson
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161457791
Author : Paul D. Duke
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Lars Kierspel
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9783161490699
Revised thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., 2006.
Author : Brian Larsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567676498
Employing Northrop Frye's system of archetypal literary criticism - the use of romance, tragedy, irony and satire, and comedy - Brian Larsen offers a compelling summary of the essential governing framework and means of exchange between literature and theology. Characters in the Fourth Gospel are examined through a specific archetype, and, reciprocally, these characters illuminate and inform important theological aspects of their respective archetypes: Jesus and romance (hero story); Pilate and tragedy; the Jews and Thomas and irony; and Peter and comedy. This volume further clarifies the understanding of Frye's archetypesand identifies the key variable between each one: the relationship between (1) a belief or ideal and (2) experience or reality. Helping to advance dialogue between literature, biblical studies and theology, and providing insightful readings for a number of Fourth Gospel characters and texts, Larsen's examination will appeal to those seeking a new perspective on the themes of the New Testament or those seeking theological insights into literature.
Author : Dorothy A. Lee
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1850754683
The book examines six long narratives of the Fourth Gospel, arguing that they are best understood as 'symbolic narrative'. They display a unique cohesion of symbol and narrative: the narrative unfolds the symbol and the symbol draws out the narrative. This process occurs as the character struggles to understand the symbolic meaning. The structure develops in five Stages: the establishing of a 'sign', image or feast (Stage 1); misunderstood in materialistic terms (Stage 2); the struggle to understand the symbolic meaning (Stage 3); the acceptance or rejection of that meaning (Stage 4); a confession of faith or statement of rejection (Stage 5). The symbolic narratives reveal how material reality becomes symbolic of the divine. Just as the flesh of Jesus is the symbol of divine glory, so material reality now has the potential for symbolizing God. Flesh has no independent existence; its value lies in its symbolic role. This parallels the cohesion between form and meaning. Just as the flesh is given value in symbolizing the divine, so narrative form is of value in disclosing theological meaning. The implied reader is drawn into the drama of the symbolic narratives to make the authentic response of faith.
Author : Jerry Camery-Hoggatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521020619
An important contribution to our understanding of Marcan irony, and combines a literary-critical approach with insights gained from the sociology of knowledge.
Author : Gail R. O'Day
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 12,86 MB
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725277379
About this Book: Gail R. O’Day’s Revelation in the Fourth Gospel set the stage for a new literary paradigm in Johannine studies, which has carried over into disciplinary advances in gospel criticism overall. With the addition of eight key Johannine essays and a state-of-the-art introduction by Alan Culpepper, this new publication as Volume 9 in the Johannine Monograph Series advances a fuller appreciation of her important work on John and new-literary biblical analyses overall. From the Preface: What becomes apparent in an overview of Gail O’Day’s work is her keen analysis of relations and functions of literary themes and features within the Gospel of John, as they further its rhetorical thrust, elucidating its meaning. Whereas diachronic approaches to John have tended to compartmentalize and divide sections and literary forms, O’Day shows time and again how things worked synchronically within John’s story of Jesus, challenging misinterpretations and opening doors to understanding more fully its message. The present collection highlights the dialectics between narrative and theology, time and space, and characters and plot in the Fourth Gospel, clarifying their tensive presentations within this classic narrative.
Author : Peter Phillips
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2006-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567030652
This study explores the background to the interpretation of the Prologue of the Fourth Gospel and the various layers of meaning.
Author : Margaret Davies
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 1992-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567154599
This innovative study attempts a comprehensive reading of the Fourth Gospel so as to make sense of its theology, anthropology and history. The most valuable insights of structuralism and reader-response criticism have been taken up, without ignoring what those methods ignore, namely, questions intrinsically related to the Fourth Gospel itself. Moreover, a just appreciation of the text requires the reader to recognize that particular historical situations affect the nature of any narrative.
Author : David W. Wead
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,10 MB
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532647204
As an interdisciplinary forerunner of the new literary approaches to gospel narratives over the last four decades in New Testament scholarship, the revised and expanded monograph by David Wead makes a timely contribution to the advancement of those studies. Rooted in comparative analyses of contemporary Hellenistic and Jewish literary techniques, and drawing from the best of Continental scholarship, Wead not only points Johannine scholars to relevant ancient resources, but his analyses prepare the way for fresh interpretations of John's story of Jesus today. Published originally in Switzerland, this book was overlooked by many scholars, to the detriment of their work. However, in addressing such themes as John's post-resurrection point of view, the Johannine sign, the Johannine double meaning, irony in the Fourth Gospel, and metaphor in the Fourth Gospel, Wead's work is now available to new generations of scholars, who will find his work both instructive and provocative. This newly revised and expanded edition, edited by Paul Anderson and Alan Culpepper, not only includes a new epilogue by David Wead, featuring new reflections and insights, but it also includes an expansive overview of the literature—before and after Wead’s work—including a helpful assessment of Wead’s monograph in service to ongoing Johannine scholarship. No serious study of Gospel literary features, devices, and strategies can afford to overlook this important book!