John for Today: Reading the Fourth Gospel

ISBN-13: 9780334043942 / Miękka / 2010 / 152 str.

Neil Richardson

Opis

An accessible introduction to John's Gospel,one of the most important and widely read texts in the New Testament.

John For Today, like the authors earlier best-selling book Paul for Today, combines fresh accessible scholarship with an exploration of the gospels significance for the contemporary Church and wider world. The Gospels historical origins, distinctive features and literary patterns are all helpfully illuminated, including Johns similarities with and differences from the other Gospels and the much-debated question of the Gospels real author. Recent criticisms of the Gospel, such as its exclusiveness, alleged anti-semitism and predominantly male characters and language are also examined, together with its relevance for a turbulent world in which religion has become a deeply ambivalent phenomenon. The book seeks to be faithful to the gospel of John in the central position it accords to Jesus, whilst also relating this controversial gospel to the Christian orthodoxy of later centuries.It is a book written for the non-specialist reader, and for such a time as this.