scholarly journals The Use of Zeteo in the Fourth Gospel: A Debate with John Painter's The Quest for the Messiah

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-26
Author(s):  
Martin Micallef
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
Sitz Im Leben ◽  
Literature And Theology ◽  
Johannine Community

Użycie zeteo w czwartej ewangelii: debata z The Quest for the Messiah Johna Paintera Artykuł jest formą debaty z monografią Johna Paintera The Quest for the Messiah: The History, Literature and Theology of the Johannine Community obszernie podejmującą temat zeteo (poszukiwania) w Ewangelii Jana. W publikacji tej Painter doszedł do wielu cennych rezultatów w próbach ustalenia znaczenia zeteo w Ewangelii Janowej, analizując przedstawione historie poszukiwań i odrzucenia. Artykuł przedstawia, w jakim stopniu Painter zrozumiał historyczne pochodzenie zeteo w stosunku do Sitz im Leben Wspólnoty Janowej. Opisuje także niektóre z możliwych kierunków rozwoju myśli Paintera i zwraca uwagę na niektóre nurty ostatnich badań nad Ewangelią św. Jana.

The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Cefalu
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
Religious Poetry ◽  
Richard Crashaw ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Early Modern English Literature ◽  
Pauline Theology ◽  
Literature And Theology

The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology argues that the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle of Saint John the Evangelist were so influential during the early modern period in England as to share with Pauline theology pride of place as leading apostolic texts on matters Christological, sacramental, pneumatological, and political. The book argues further that, in several instances, Johannine theology is more central than both Pauline theology and the Synoptic theology of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, particularly with regard to early modern polemicizing on the Trinity, distinctions between agape and eros, and the ideologies of radical dissent, especially the seventeenth-century antinomian challenge of free grace to traditional Puritan Pietism. In particular, early modern religious poetry, including works by Robert Southwell, George Herbert, John Donne, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne, and Anna Trapnel, embraces a distinctive form of Johannine devotion that emphasizes the divine rather than human nature of Christ; the belief that salvation is achieved more through revelation than objective atonement and expiatory sin; a realized eschatology; a robust doctrine of assurance and comfort; and a stylistic and rhetorical approach to representing these theological features that often emulates John’s mode of discipleship misunderstanding and dramatic irony. Early modern Johannine devotion assumes that religious lyrics often express a revelatory poetics that aims to clarify, typically through dramatic irony, some of the deepest mysteries of the Fourth Gospel and First Epistle.

The Farewell Discourses and the History of Johannine Christianity.

1981 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Painter
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Johannine Community ◽  
Internal Division

The question of ‘traces’ of history in the Fourth Gospel is not new. In 1968 Louis Martyn published hisHistory and Theology in the Fourth Gospel. His thesis, reduced to utter simplicity, was that the Gospel is a drama presented at two levels, one concerning Jesus and the other concerning the community of the evangelist in which the Jesus tradition had been shaped. Thus the Fourth Gospel is seen as a Jewish Christian composition shaped in the dialogue/conflict with the synagogue. More recently Raymond Brown has given us his own penetrating reconstruction of the history of the Johannine community. This is presented in four phases: from its beginning until the exclusion from the synagogue; the situation at the time the Gospel was written; internal division (Epistles); and the final disappearance of both groups in the second century, absorbed, either by the emerging great church or by Docetism, Gnosticism and Montanism.

‘Because of the Woman's Testimony …’: Reexamining the Issue of Authorship in the Fourth Gospel

1998 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-535
Author(s):  
Sandra M. Schneiders
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Individual ◽  
Johannine Community ◽  
Beloved Disciple

This article combines historical, literary, theological, and feminist criticism to inquire into the identity of the Beloved Disciple (BD) in the Fourth Gospel attempting to mediate between the theory of the BD as pure literary construct and the BD as a single historical individual. It proposes that the BD is a textual paradigm of ideal discipleship which is realized diversely in several characters in the text. This has ramifications for the textual identity of the evangelist and of the foundational Easter witness of the Johannine community. It suggests that women were more significant in leadership of the Johannine community than has been recognised in the past.

Jesus and the Adulteress

1988 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart D. Ehrman
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
Close Resemblance ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
Early Evidence ◽  
Sitz Im Leben ◽  
Form Part

The story of Jesus and the Adulteress (John 7. 53–8. 11) is fraught with historical and literary problems, many of which have seemed insoluble. On only two points is there a scholarly consensus: the passage did not originally form part of the Fourth Gospel, and it bears a close resemblance to Synoptic, particularly Lukan, traditions about Jesus. The arguments for these judgments are overwhelming and do not need to be repeated here. In some respects these unanimous conclusions have themselves brought into sharp focus the thorny problems of the story's textual and pre-literary history: (1) Textual. Since the oldest and best textual witnesses of the Gospel of John do not contain the passage, how should the allusive references to it from the second and third centuries be evaluated? Did Papias know this story? If so, did he find it in the Gospel according to the Hebrews? Or was it Eusebius, who informs us of Papias's knowledge of this or a similar story, who found it there? What form of the story was known to the author of the Didascalia and his subsequent editor, the author of the Apostolic Constitutions? Did Origen know the story? If not, when was it first accepted into the Alexandrian canon? (2) Preliterary. How should this story be classified form-critically? And in whatSitz im Lebenof the early church would it have thrived? Does the story preserve authentic tradition from the life of Jesus? Scholarship has reached an impasse on these questions because the early evidence is so sparse. Martin Dibelius's famous pronouncement from a different context applies here as well: ‘Enlightenment is to be expected not from new hypotheses but only from new discoveries.’

The Quest for the Johannine School: The Apocalypse and the Fourth Gospel

1977 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 402-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Fourth Gospel ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Johannine Community

The subject presents one of those questions in New Testament criticism in which mental bent, apart from the bias of prejudgment, is chiefly influential in deter-mining the conclusions reached.This statement with which I. T. Beckwith introduced in 1919 his discussion of the authorship of the Apocalypse (Apoc) still proves to be true today. It can be equally applied to the question whether the Apoc should be assigned to the same school or circle that was responsible for the Fourth Gospel (4G) and the Johannine Epistles. The judgement moreover also pertains to the historical and theological interpretation of either the Apoc or the 4G. Mental bent and systematic presuppositions determine the various reconstructions of the history of the Johannine community as well as the theological interpretations of its literary works.

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