Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel
Title | Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel PDF eBook |
Author | C. H. Dodd |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 472 |
Release | 1976-09-23 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780521291231 |
An historical investigation of the narrative material and Sayings of St John's Gospel.
Theology and History in the Fourth Gospel
Title | Theology and History in the Fourth Gospel PDF eBook |
Author | Jörg Frey |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9781481310345 |
The Fourth Gospel is deeply shaped by its remarkably high Christology. It depicts the earthly Jesus, the incarnate one, as fully divine. This unrelenting Christology has led interpreters, both ancient and modern, to question the historical value of John's Gospel. For many, the Gospel is just theology. It is to the vexed relationship between history and theology that Jörg Frey turns in Theology and History in the Fourth Gospel. John's theological obsession with Christology might suggest that history counts for little in the Gospel. But, as Frey argues, the Gospel's clear and central claim is that John narrates the story of Jesus of Nazareth, his ministry, and his death, as "factual," and that this narrated "history" is foundational for the Christian message. Frey traces the Gospel's use of the available historical tradition by chiefly drawing from Mark and the Johannine community. Even if the Gospel of John used this received witness in a remarkably free manner, replotting and renarrating traditional episodes and even creatively staging new episodes, Frey contends that the historical life and person of Jesus remain central to John's enterprise. In the end, Frey warns that Johannine interpretation will miss the intention of the Gospel and the interpretive perspective of the evangelist if it remains preoccupied merely with questions of historical accuracy. The interpretive goal is to "let John be John," and, as Frey shows, readers will always yield to the priority of theology over history in the Fourth Gospel. In John's telling of the Christ story, the significance of history lies precisely in its disclosure of theological meaning, just as the significance of the historical Jesus is only understood in the theological language of Christology.
Historical tradition in the fourth gospel
Title | Historical tradition in the fourth gospel PDF eBook |
Author | Charles H. Dodd |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 453 |
Release | 1963 |
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Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel
Title | Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Harold Dodd |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 453 |
Release | 1965 |
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Gospel Perspectives, Volume 2
Title | Gospel Perspectives, Volume 2 PDF eBook |
Author | R. T. France |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | 377 |
Release | 2003-07-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1592442889 |
'Gospel Perspectives' is the fruit of the Gospels Research Project of Tyndale House, Cambridge. This six-volume collection, published between the years of 1981 and 1986 presents top evangelical scholarship on Gospels. Contributors include: William Craig, Richard Bauckham, Murray Harris, Peter Davids, Robert Stein, F.F. Bruce, Leon Morris, and D.A. Carson.
Jesus in Johannine Tradition
Title | Jesus in Johannine Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Tomson Fortna |
Publisher | Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780664222192 |
This volume explores the distance, historically and theologically, between the historical Jesus and the Gospel of John. Essays on these topics are provided by 27 authors from a variety of backgrounds.
The Gospel of the Lord
Title | The Gospel of the Lord PDF eBook |
Author | Michael F. Bird |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 2014-08-22 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0802867766 |
In this book, through a distinctive evangelical and critical approach, Michael Bird explores the historical development of the four canonical Gospels. He shows how the memories and faith of the earliest believers formed the Gospel accounts of Jesus that got written and, in turn, how these accounts further shaped the early church. Bird's study clarifies the often confusing debates over the origins of the canonical Gospels. Bird navigates recent concerns and research as he builds an informed case for how the early Christ followers wrote and spread the story of Jesus -- the story by which they believed they were called to live. The Gospel of the Lord is ideal for students or anyone who wants to know the story behind the four Gospels. Watch an interview with Michael Bird from our Eerdmans Author Interview Series: