The Anointed Community: The Holy Spirit in the Johannine Tradition

by Gary M. Burge, I. Howard Marshall (Foreword by)

Overview

Recent research on the Johannine literature has concluded that behind these writings stands a flourishing community of Christians who lived under the tutelage of the Beloved Disciple, preserved his writings, and venerated his memory. In this book, Gary M. Burge examines one feature of this community's belief and experience: the role of the Spirit in its view both of Christ and of the Christian experience.

Burge carefully examines all the Spirit passages in the Fourth Gospel and the Johannine Epistles and argues that the Johannine community elevated Spirit-experience to the forefront of Christian life and found in Christ the model of the Spirit-filled person.

Thoroughly researched and well-argued, Burge's systematic study of the pneumatology of John will be valuable to scholars, ministers, and seminary students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802801937
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	04/19/1987
Edition description:	Subsequent
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.44(w) x 8.54(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xi
	Abbreviations	xiii
	Introduction	xvi
Part I	The Paraclete and Pneumatology
1	A Prospectus on Johannine Pneumatology	3
A.	The Paraclete Problem	6
B.	Finding a Background for the Paraclete	10
1.	Proto-Gnostic Antecedents	10
2.	Hellenistic Antecedents	12
3.	Old Testament and Jewish Antecedents	13
a.	The Advocate before Qumran	13
b.	The Advocate after Qumran	16
c.	A Forerunner/Perfecter Motif	23
d.	The Gattung Abschiedsrede	25
e.	The Development of an Old Testament Theme	28
4.	Conclusion	30
C.	The Paraclete in Johannine Reflection	31
1.	Persecution Sayings	31
2.	Christology and Eschatology	32
a.	An Eschatological Continuum	33
b.	Pentecost Becomes Parousia	35
3.	Witness and Revelation	36
4.	Prophets and Prophecy	38
5.	Conclusion	41
D.	Pneuma in the Johannine Literature	41
E.	Prospectus	44
Part II	The Holy Spirit in John
2	Spirit and Christology	49
A.	The Baptism of Jesus: John 1:29-34	50
1.	The Synoptic Gospels	50
2.	The Fourth Gospel	51
a.	The Significance for the Baptist	52
b.	The Significance for Jesus	53
(1)	The Synoptic Gospels	53
(2)	The Use of Meveiv: 1:32, 33	54
(3)	The Descending Dove: 1:32, 33	56
c.	Psalm 2 or Isaiah 42? The Pronouncement	59
3.	Conclusion	61
B.	Jesus in the Power of the Spirit	62
1.	The Synoptic Gospels	62
a.	Works of Power	63
(1)	Exorcisms and Satan	64
(2)	Miracles	65
b.	Words of Authority	67
(1)	Jesus as Prophet	68
(2)	Jesus as the Eschatological Prophet	68
c.	Conclusion	71
2.	The Fourth Gospel	71
a.	Preliminary Remarks	71
b.	Works of Power	73
(1)	Exorcisms and Satan	73
(2)	Miracles	74
(a)	Sign [characters not reproducible]	78
(b)	Work [characters not reproducible]	79
(c)	Glory [characters not reproducible]	80
c.	The Spirit and Johannine Christology	81
(1)	Jesus, a Man Anointed	81
(a)	John 3:34	81
(b)	John 6:27	84
(c)	John 1:51	86
(2)	Spirit Christology	87
(a)	John 7:37-39	88
(b)	John 19:34	93
(c)	1 John 5:6-8	95
(d)	John 4:7-15	96
d.	Words of Authority	101
(1)	Spirit and Word	101
(2)	Spirit as the Word	102
(3)	John 6:63	104
(4)	The Johannine Prophet Christology	107
(a)	Jesus as Prophet	107
(b)	Jesus as the Eschatological Prophet	108
3.	Conclusion	110
	Excursus: Virgin Birth or Preexistent Logos? The Spirit and Jesus' Origins	111
3	Spirit and Eschatology: John 20:22	114
A.	The Problem	114
1.	Eschatology	114
2.	John 20:22	116
B.	Interpreting John 20:22	117
1.	John 20:22 as Symbol	117
2.	John 20:22: A Pre-Pentecost Anointing	119
a.	An Ordination Gift	119
b.	The Power of Life	120
c.	The Embryonic Paraclete	122
3.	A Johannine Pentecost	123
C.	The Johannine Expectation/Interpretation	131
1.	The Unified Events of the Hour	132
a.	Glorification	132
b.	John 19:30, 34	133
c.	The Ascension and John 20:17ff	136
2.	The Unity of Christ and Spirit	137
a.	The Johannine Expectation	137
b.	Parallels: Christ and the Paraclete	140
c.	The Personalization of the Paraclete	142
d.	The Problem of the Parousia	143
D.	Conclusion	147
4	The Spirit and the Sacraments	150
A.	The Traditional Problem of the Sacraments in John	151
1.	Sacramentalism	152
2.	Non-Sacramentalism	154
3.	Critical/Corrective	156
B.	Sacramental Interest in John 3 and 6	157
C.	John 3: Spirit and Rebirth	158
1.	Baptismal Interest in John 3	159
a.	Textual Considerations	160
b.	The Background and Meaning of	161
(1)	A Symbolic Interpretation	161
(2)	[characters not reproducible] and Ritual Purification	162
c.	[characters not reproducible] and John's Baptism	163
(1)	John 3:22-30	163
(2)	John 4:1-3	164
2.	The Meaning and Significance of Rebirth	165
a.	The Relation between [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible] in Rebirth	166
(1)	John 3:3	167
(2)	John 3:6-8	168
b.	The Objective Basis of Rebirth: The Cross and Faith	169
3.	Spirit and Identity in 1 John	171
a.	1 John 3:24; 4:13	173
b.	[characters not reproducible] in 1 John 2:20, 27	174
c.	[characters not reproducible] in 1 John 3:9	175
d.	Revelation 3:19-22	176
4.	Conclusion	177
D.	John 6: Spirit and Eucharist	178
1.	A Eucharistic Allusion in John 6:1-15, 35-50?	178
2.	The "Eucharistic Section," John 6:51/52-58	181
a.	Eucharistic Realism	181
b.	Authenticity and Coherence	183
c.	John 6:60-63 and the Antecedent of [characters not reproducible]	185
3.	John's Theology of the Eucharist	186
a.	The Nature of the Corrective	186
b.	Praesentia Realis and the Spirit	188
4.	Does John 15:1-17 Refer to the Eucharist?	189
E.	Worship in Spirit and Truth: John 4:20-24	190
1.	The Criteria of True Worship	191
a.	God Is Spirit	192
b.	Worship in Spirit	192
c.	Worship in Truth	193
2.	Samaria, Stephen, and John	195
a.	The Temple and Samaria	196
b.	The Johannine Expression	197
5	Spirit, Mission, and Anamnesis	198
A.	Spirit and Mission: John 20:21	199
1.	Jesus: God's Apostle	200
2.	Agency and Apostolic Mission	201
a.	The Disciples	202
b.	The Paraclete	203
B.	Trial and Revelation	204
1.	The Origin of the Paraclete Sayings: John 15:18-16:4a	205
2.	The Paraclete as Advocate: John 16:8-11	208
3.	The Paraclete as Witness	210
a.	Anamnesis: John 14:25-26	211
b.	The Johannine Hermeneutic: John 16:12-15	214
4.	Prophecy and Heterodoxy	217
a.	The Johannine Adjustment	219
b.	Early Catholicism?	220
C.	Conclusion	221
	Epilogue	223
	Bibliography	225
	Indexes	255