Wisdom Christology In The Gospel Of John

Author : Dustin R. Smith
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798385211395

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Wisdom Christology in the Gospel of John by Dustin R. Smith Pdf

This volume contends that the Gospel of John presents the most thorough and robust Wisdom Christology of all the New Testament books. Wisdom Christology—the christological concept that applies the roles, characteristics, and functions of God’s personified wisdom to the man Jesus Christ—is displayed to be skillfully interwoven throughout all twenty-one chapters of the Fourth Gospel, starting with the famous prologue. In response to the prevailing tendency among interpreters to project postbiblical understandings of Jesus from the fourth- and fifth-century church councils back into the Gospel of John, this volume shows that a more fitting context emerges from Jewish Wisdom literature. By situating the Johannine Jesus in his first-century Jewish context, readers can appreciate John’s commitment to monotheism and Jesus’ role as the Father’s highly empowered human agent, fully embodying Lady Wisdom.

Author : James D. G. Dunn
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802839336

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Neither Jew nor Greek by James D. G. Dunn Pdf

This book brings James Dunns magisterial Christianity in the Making trilogy to a close.Neither Jew nor Greek covers the period following the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 c.e. and running through the second century, when the still-new Jesus movement firmed up its distinctive identity markers and the structures on which it would establish its growing appeal in the following decades and centuries. Dunn examines in depth the major factors that shaped first-generation Christianity and beyond, exploring the parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism, the Hellenization of Christianity, and responses to Gnosticism. He mines all the first- and second-century sources, including the New Testament Gospels and such apostolic fathers as Ignatius, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus. Comprehensively covering an important, complex era in early Christianity that is often overlooked,Neither Jew nor Greek is a landmark contribution to the field.

Author : M. Jack Suggs
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : IND:39000003731259

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Wisdom, Christology, and Law in Matthew's Gospel by M. Jack Suggs Pdf

Author : Daniel J. Ebert
Publisher : P & R Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1596381027

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Wisdom Christology by Daniel J. Ebert Pdf

"What is true wisdom? While contemporary culture locates it in self-absorption, the first-century apostles revealed how wisdom, a central Old Testament theme, is located in Jesus Christ and in no other. Daniel Ebert explains how Old Testament wisdom motifs are not only fully appropriated in New Testament christology but also far surpassed in God's Son. The Explorations in Biblical Theology series addresses the need for quality literature that attracts believing readers to good theology and builds them up in their faith. Each title in the series combines solid content with accessibility and readability - a valuable addition to the library of any college student, thoughtful lay reader, seminarian, or pastor" -- Publisher description.

Author : Sharon H. Ringe
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664257143

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Wisdom's Friends by Sharon H. Ringe Pdf

Sharon Ringe sheds new light on a heretofore neglected aspect of the Fourth Gospel--friendship--and through it links the concepts of community and Wisdom Christology. This connection between Johannine ecclesiology and Christology, she writes, is critical to an in depth understanding the Fourth Gospel.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:1035910086

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The Gospel According to John by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ben Witherington
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 066425621X

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John's Wisdom by Ben Witherington Pdf

Jesus as depicted in the Fourth Gospel is remarkably dissimilar to the Jesus found in the synoptic gospels. In this book, Witherington places the Gospel of John within its proper literary, historical, social and theological contexts. What emerges is a compelling argument that the Gospel of John has an agenda for mission, in addition to concerns for discipleship and community life.

Author : Michael Card
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830879700

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John: The Gospel of Wisdom by Michael Card Pdf

"When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth." - John 16:13 "He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His testimony is true, and he knows he is telling the truth." - John 19:35 With time and experience comes wisdom. John, the longest-surviving of the apostles, recorded in his Gospel a portrait of Jesus that displays the depth of years of reflection on who Jesus is and what he means to the world. Writing in light of the philosophies of his day, John describes Jesus as the incarnate Word, the divine Logos, the embodiment of all truth and wisdom. In this last volume of the Biblical Imagination Series, Michael Card completes his work on the four Gospels. He shows how John stands alongside the other Gospel writers to fill out the picture of Jesus' divine identity, with stories and sayings of Jesus not recorded by the others. This Jesus reorients our understanding of ourselves and the world around us, offering us nothing less than the way, the truth and the life. Like John before him, Card has written these words so that we may better believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing we have life in his name.

Author : Benjamin Reynolds,Gabriele Boccaccini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004376045

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Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as Jewish Messianism by Benjamin Reynolds,Gabriele Boccaccini Pdf

The essays in Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as Jewish Messianism: Royal, Prophetic, and Divine Messiahs seek to interpret John’s Jesus as part of Second Temple Jewish messianic expectations.

Author : Ben Witherington, III
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451404174

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Jesus the Sage by Ben Witherington, III Pdf

The path of wisdom from Solomon to Jesus and from Jesus to the churchIn the early Jesus movement, wisdom in the person of Jesus was believed to have returned to heaven, exalted to the right hand of God, and to reign from there. But Jesus as wisdom had left both his legacy and his influence behind. The sayings of Jesus recorded in the Gospels reflect not only the influence of the Israelite wisdom traditions, but also the tradition of the personification of wisdom.In this provocative volume newly available in paperback, Ben Witherington provides both an introduction to Israel's wisdom traditions and insight into how Jesus and his sayings fit in that tradition. Beyond this, he demonstrates the on-going significance and influence of these traditions on other New Testament writings. He concludes that Jesus may be viewed primarily as a prophetic sage emphasizing instruction, insight, and humor in a vein counter to the dominant culture.

Author : Stevan L. Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0974566748

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The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom by Stevan L. Davies Pdf

Discovered in Egypt in 1945 as part of the Nag Hammadi Library, the Gospel of Thomas was long considered irrelevant to the study of Jesus' teachings. Stevan Davies' influential The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Wisdom overturned this view, and enabled the Gospel of Thomas to be taken seriously as a source for the earliest Christianity. This Bardic Press edition brings a classic work of accessible scholarshp back into print. A entirely new forty page introduction discusses recent developments in scholarship, looks at Thomas' independence from the New Testament gospels, discusses the role of Mary Magdalene in the Gospel Thomas, and offers a variety of valuable insights. A fascinating additional essay speculates that Thomas may have been used as an oracle text in a similar way to the I Ching.

Author : Ben Witherington
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015017436679

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Jesus the Sage by Ben Witherington Pdf

Entering into the renewed and sometimes confusing attempts to comprehend the work of Jesus of Nazareth and his person, Ben Witherington guides the reader through a vast complex of ancient documents and contemporary questions. He shows that Jesus' contemporaries viewed Jesus as a Jewish prophetic sage whose teaching and style were a reflection of the convergence of Hebrew wisdom and prophetic forms and ideas. Witherington traces the path of wisdom from its earliest manifestations in the Hebrew Bible to its importance in the work of Jesus and then to its apparent influence on the Christology of Paul and other New Testament writers. The result is a masterful contribution to scholarship, written with verve and clarity.

Author : Leo D. Lefebure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015014313970

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Toward a Contemporary Wisdom Christology by Leo D. Lefebure Pdf

This book examines the relationship between the biblical trajectory of Wisdom Christology and the Christologies of Karl Rahner and Norman Pittenger and explores the contribution that the wisdom tradition can make to contemporary interpretations of Jesus Christ. Contents: include: The Origins of Wisdom Christology; The Christology of Karl Rahner; The Christology of Norman Pittenger; Wisdom Christology and Contemporary Theology. Also includes an index of Biblical and ancient works.

Author : Cornelis Bennema
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556357374

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The Power of Saving Wisdom by Cornelis Bennema Pdf

Cornelis Bennema explains the role of the Spirit in salvation according to John's Gospel against the background of intertestamental Jewish wisdom literature. He comes to the conclusion that the salvific function of the Spirit is that of a cognitive agent who, through the mediation of life-giving wisdom, creates and sustains a saving relationship between the believer and the Father and Son.

Author : Cornelis Bennema
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3161477464

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The Power of Saving Wisdom by Cornelis Bennema Pdf

Cornelis Bennema elucidates the soteriological function of the Spirit in the Fourth Gospel, and analyzes the interrelationship between John's pneumatology and soteriology along the trajectory of wisdom. As a possible conceptual background for aspects of Johannine pneumatology, he selects the Jewish wisdom tradition and suggests that sapient Judaism understood 'salvation' as an intensification of that work of the Spirit that is already immanent to a person, namely, the mediation of life and wisdom. The development of an overall model of Johannine soteriology, which holds together both the relational and cognitive aspects of salvation, assists in identifying the specific activities in which the Spirit is involved. The author argues that the soteriological function of the Spirit is twofold. First, the Spirit creates a saving relationship between the believer and the Father and Son, by mediating to people the saving wisdom present in Jesus' life-giving teaching. The Spirit thus enables the believer to come to an adequate understanding and belief-response. Second, the Spirit sustains this saving relationship through further mediation of wisdom that enables the believer to demonstrate discipleship as an ongoing belief-response. Hence, the Spirit accomplishes his soteriological role precisely in his function as a life-giving cognitive agent, i.e., through the mediation of saving wisdom the Spirit provides cognitive perception, understanding, and so life. This concept of the Spirit is the most important continuity between the models of salvation in sapient Judaism and in the Fourth Gospel.