New Testament History and Literature with Dale B. Martin

New Testament History and Literature with Dale B. Martin - Season 1 Episode 12 Johannine Christianity: The Letters

2009-09-02 48 minutes.
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1 Season 1 Sep 02, 2009

Overview

The Jesus of the Gospel of John often speaks in riddles so that his dialogues with characters such as Nicodemus appear confusing, rather than clarifying. The focus, however, of the Gospel of John is on Christology. In the Gospel, Jesus is divine. So it is also in 1 John, where many of the themes of the Gospel are echoed. 1, 2, and 3 John possibly present us with correspondences of the Johannine community, a sectarian group insisting on the divinity and humanity of Jesus, against the Docetists and other differing forms of early Christianity.

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