| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvi, 319 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : (How) can we talk about Johannine ethics? looking back and moving forward / Christopher W. Skinner -- Believing in the Gospel of John : the ethical imperative to becoming children of God / Sherri Brown -- Love one another : the Johannine love command in the farewell discourse / Christopher W. Skinner -- "Follow me" : a life-giving ethical imperative / Raymond F. Collins -- The creation ethics of the Gospel of John / R. Alan Culpepper -- Love embodied in action : ethics and incarnation in the Gospel of John / Jaime Clark-Soles -- The lyin' king? deception and christology in the Gospel of John / Adele Reinhartz -- John's implicit ethic of enemy-love / Michael J. Gorman -- Just opponents? ambiguity, empathy, and the Jews in the Gospel of John / Alicia D. Myers -- The Johannine request to "come and see" and an ethic of love / Toan Do -- God, Eschatology, and "This World" : ethics in the Gospel of John / Francis J. Moloney -- Genre, rhetoric, and moral efficacy : approaching Johannine ethics in light of Plutarch's Lives and the Progymnasmata / Lindsey Trozzo -- Creation, ethics, and the Gospel of John / Dorothy A. Lee -- Virtue ethics and the Johannine writings / Cornelis Bennema -- Conclusion : moving the conversation forward -- Johannine ethics in prospect / Christopher W. Skinner and Sherri Brown |
| Summary |
The Gospel and Epistles of John are often overlooked in discussions of New Testament ethics; indeed, it has been asserted that the Fourth Gospel is of only limited value to such discussions--even that John is practically devoid of ethical material. Representing a range of viewpoints, the essays collected here by prominent scholars reveal the surprising relevance and importance of the Johannine literature by examining the explicit imperatives and the values implicit in the Gospel narrative and epistles. The introduction sets out four major approaches to Johannine ethics today. Essays in subsequent sections evaluate the directives of the Johannine Jesus (believe, love, follow), tease out the implicit ethics of the Gospel's narrative (including its fraught and apparently sectarian representation of hoi Ioudaioi as Jesus's opponents), and propose different approaches for advancing the discussion of Johannine ethics beyond the categories now dominant in critical scholarship. In a concluding essay, the editors take stock of the book's wide-ranging discussion and suggest prospects for future study. The sum is a valuable resource for the student as well as the scholar interested in the question of Johannine ethics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-311) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Epistles of John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87003677
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Bible. Epistles of John fast |
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Bible. John fast |
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Bibel Johanneische Schriften gnd |
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Ethics in the Bible.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
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Ethics in the Bible
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Ethik
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Skinner, Christopher W., editor
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Brown, Sherri, editor
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| ISBN |
9781506438467 |
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1506438466 |
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