The Gospel of John and Christian Origins

The Gospel of John and Christian Origins

by John Ashton
The Gospel of John and Christian Origins

The Gospel of John and Christian Origins

by John Ashton

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Overview

One of the most challenging questions facing New Testament scholars—how did Christianity emerge from Judaism?—is often addressed in general and indirect terms. The question becomes acute, however, when we turn to the Fourth Gospel, which, like the Judaism from which it presumably sprang, affirms one God, yet also affirms the incarnation of the eternal Word and, in nascent form, what Christians will later call the Trinity––teachings that seem to set the Gospel poles apart from Judaism! John Ashton refuses any merely evolutionary explanation for this shift. Rather, he argues that the author of the Fourth Gospel set out precisely to supplant one revelation with another, and this because of the profound religious experience of the Evangelist, who turned from being a practicing Jew to experiencing a new revelation centered on Christ as the intermediary between God and humanity.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781451479829
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 01/04/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 844 KB

About the Author

John Ashton is a former lecturer in New Testament studies at Oxford University. He has written extensively on the Gospel of John, including Understanding the Fourth Gospel (1991; 2nd ed. 2007) and Studying John: Approaches to the Fourth Gospel (1998).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi

Introduction 1

1 Moses 7

Excursus I The Gospel Genre 23

2 Consciousness of Genre 31

3 Chief Priests and Pharisees 45

4 The Essenes 57

Excursus II The Johannine Community 75

5 The Situation of the Gospel 85

6 The Apocalyptic Background 97

Excursus III The Changing Gospel 119

7 The Mission' of the Prophet 133

Excursus IV The Prologue: God's Plan for Humankind 145

8 Human or Divine? 157

9 The Johannine Christ 181

Conclusion 201

Bibliography 207

Index of Ancient Sources 217

Index of Names and Subjects 225

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