The Temporal Mechanics of the Fourth Gospel

The Temporal Mechanics of the Fourth Gospel
Author: Douglas Estes
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004165983

By redefining narrative temporality in light of modern physics, this book advances a unique and innovative approach to the deep-seated temporalities within the Gospel of Johna "and challenges the implicit assumptions of textual brokenness that run throughout Johannine scholarship.

The Fourth Gospel and the Manufacture of Minds in Ancient Historiography, Biography, Romance, and Drama

The Fourth Gospel and the Manufacture of Minds in Ancient Historiography, Biography, Romance, and Drama
Author: Tyler Smith
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2019-03-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004396047

The Fourth Gospel and the Manufacture of Minds in Ancient Historiography, Biography, Romance, and Drama is the first book-length study of genre and character cognition in the Gospel of John. Informed by traditions of ancient literary criticism and the emerging discipline of cognitive narratology, Tyler Smith argues that narrative genres have generalizable patterns for representing cognitive material and that this has profound implications for how readers make sense of cognitive content woven into the narratives they encounter. After investigating conventions for representing cognition in ancient historiography, biography, romance, and drama, Smith offers an original account of how these conventions illuminate the Johannine narrative’s enigmatic cognitive dimension, a rich tapestry of love and hate, belief and disbelief, recognition and misrecognition, understanding and misunderstanding, knowledge, ignorance, desire, and motivation.

The Son-Father Relationship and Christological Symbolism in the Gospel of John

The Son-Father Relationship and Christological Symbolism in the Gospel of John
Author: Adesola Joan Akala
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2014-07-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567577104

This volume examines Johannine symbolism within the lens of Jesus' relationship with the Father. After demonstrating that the Gospel narrative symbolically portrays Jesus as the Son of God who is relationally inseparable from his Father, the study shows how the Son-Father Relationship (SFR) is at the center of the network of Christological symbols in the Gospel of John. Using an innovative narrative framework, this book unveils the creative and symbolic introduction of the SFR in the Prologue (Jn. 1. 1-18), its development through the words and actions of Jesus' teaching ministry within the Johannine narrative, and its culmination in the Prayer (Jn. 17); the SFR motif then concludes in the remainder of the Gospel. This narrative framework reveals how the SFR shapes the literary style and theological strategy of the Gospel, and acts as an integrative force by giving structure and cohesion to the Gospel's symbolic system. Two key features presented in this book are a theory of symbolism and a network of symbols. The specially formulated 'Theory of Johannine Symbolism' explains the theoretical and theological underpinnings of the Gospel's symbolic network, called 'John's Christological Symbology'. Through the symbolic network, the author of the Gospel fulfills the theological purpose stated in Jn. 20:31-that hearer-readers believe in Jesus the Christ, as the Son of God, and thereby experience eternal life.

The Fourth Gospel

The Fourth Gospel
Author: Edmund Hamilton Sears
Publisher:
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1872
Genre: Bible
ISBN: