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The Prologue of the Gospel of John as the Gateway to Christological Truth
CONTRIBUTORS
Introduction
Johannine Dualism and Contemporary Pluralism
Christianizing Divine Aseity: Irenaeus Reads John
Anglican Approaches to St. John's Gospel
Glory or Persecution: The God of the Gospel of John in the History of Interpretation
The Historical Reliability of John's Gospel: From What Perspective Should It Be Assessed?
The Fourth Gospel as the Testimony of the Beloved Disciple
Bridging the Gap: How Might the Fourth Gospel Help Us Cope with the Legacy of Christianity's Exclusi
Anti-Judaism, the Jews, and the Worlds of the Fourth Gospel
"The Jews Who Had Believed in Him" (John 8:31) and the Motif of Apostasy in the Gospel of John
"The Father of Lies," "the Mother of Lies," and the Death of Jesus (John 12:20-33)
The Lazarus Story: A Literary Perspective
The Raising of Lazarus in John n: A Theological Reading
The Lazarus Narrative, Theological History, and Historical Probability
The Testimony of Works in the Christology of John's Gospel
On Guessing Points and Naming Stars: Epistemological Origins of John's Christological Tensions
Narrative Docetism: Christology and Storytelling in the Gospel of John
"The Truth Will Set You Free": Salvation as Revelation
God in the World-the World in God: Perichoresis in Trinity and Eschatology
INDEX OF ANCIENT PERSONS
INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS
INDEX OF PLACE NAMES
INDEX OF SCRIPTURES AND OTHER ANCIENT WRITINGS
Todd Larsson's essay, drawing on his larger study of the history of interpretation in his God in the
One session of the conference brought together papers that approached the account of the raising of
One of the highlights of the conference was Martin Hengel's theological exposition of the Prologue t
The problem is posed sharply by Johannine scholar R. Alan Culpepper in his 1996 essay, "The Gospel o
religious backgrounds. To put it in other words, does using the Gospel of John as a document of fait
By way of response, Culpepper begins by briefly tracing challenges to John as a document of faith in
Culpepper then suggests that the challenges facing John's Gospel as a document of faith today are
Culpepper proceeds to consider each of these three questions in turn. On the first, he emphasizes th
ates his main contention: the challenge to John as a document of faith today is the ethical one - an
Having just spoken of the need to take theology and history seriously, and the need for a proper con
James H. Charlesworth has a widely cited study comparing the "dualisms" of John and the Qumran Scr
focusing on John in particular;9 and, most recently, John Ashton's magisterial Understanding the Fou
also.10
We may begin with the question of definition. Historian of religion and Gnosticism specialist, Ugo B
An important corollary is the need to distinguish dualism proper from simple dualities or pairs of
principles - often conceived of as good and evil - function eternally; in eschatological dualism the
The relevance of Bianchi's definition and typology for the present study needs to be considered. Fir
Having made these cautionary comments, however, due weight has to be given to textual and historical
(to) "Psychological" dualism is where the contrast between good and evil is internalized such that t
Casting the definitional net as widely as this not only makes it possible to find numerous elements
As the last quotation makes explicit, the dualism here is predicated on the traditional scriptural p
Ashton fundamentally agrees: "We must conclude that without further specification the contrast bet
But as well as the vertical opposition of heaven and earth, "the world" has the connotation of a hor
Does this kind of dualism have any close analogies? Specifically, does the impressive deployment of
Ashton, indeed, goes further, advancing the hypothesis that the closeness of fit between Qumran du
born of truth spring from a fountain of light, but those born of falsehood spring from a source of d
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