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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Fourth Gospel."”.
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Rhetorical strategies in the Fourth Gospel
The author of the Fourth Gospel (FG) has put forth a Gospel that attempts to demonstrate that Jesus is the Christ to fulfill the explicit programmatic “purpose statement” in John 20:30–31. The central question that this thesis attempts to answer is, what are the persuasive rhetorical strategies …
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A mission reading of the Fourth Gospel
The Fourth Gospel has contributed to the Church’s thinking on several theological themes. This thesis studies the missiology of the Gospel by reading the Fourth Gospel from a missional perspective. The study does not seek to find a pre-defined mission within the Gospel but seeks instead to discover …
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The destination and purpose of the Fourth Gospel
It is not only the "contents" of the Fourth Gospel that have taxed the skills of exegetes and biblical scholars down through the centuries, simple though the language and style appear to be at first reading; practically everything else that has been said about or claimed for this gospel has been …
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Scribal Tendencies in the Fourth Gospel in Codex Alexandrinus
… about the scribal tendencies observed in the Fourth Gospel in Codex Alexandrinus using the method of isolating and classifying singular readings similar to what was first proposed by Colwell, and later modified by Royse and others. In addition to singular readings made before corrections, this …
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Old Testament characters as Christological witnesses in the Fourth Gospel
… function of the Old Testament characters in the Gospel of John. Chapter 1 discusses the problem concomitant to the bi-partite nature of the Christian Bible and the scholarly solutions suggested to remedy this issue. The importance of Christology for John and the Gospel's indebtedness to the …
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Jesus' resurrection as the climactic semeion in the Fourth Gospel
… pronoun "these" in the purpose statement of the Fourth Gospel (20:30-31). Chapter 1 sets forth the problem, thesis, method, background of this study. This chapter also deals with five different scholarly understandings on the scope to which the pronoun "these" refers. This chapter suggests that …
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Kosmos and Ioudaioi in the Fourth Gospel: Parallelism, function and context
… [Ioudaioi ; Special characters omitted.] in the Gospel of John. Chapter 1 introduces the discussion about the post-Holocaust theology and its significance for biblical studies in general and for the New Testament and the meaning of "the Jews" in the Gospel of John in particular. Chapter 2 …
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The Light Overcomes the Darkness: Cosmic Conflict in the Fourth Gospel
The thesis for this dissertation is that the Fourth Gospel does have a developed theology of cosmic conflict. Furthermore, warfare is evidenced in the Fourth Gospel by the author's portrayal of three primary aspects of the conflict: (1) the agents involved in the battle, both protagonists and …
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The theology of judgement in the Fourth Gospel: christology and eschatology in John 5
… puzzle of the theology of judgement in the Fourth Gospel. Throughout John’s Gospel, Jesus is presented as both judging and not judging while eschatological scenarios are presented and alluded to in which humanity will be judged at the last day and also in which will be no final judgement. …
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Exploring Johannine ethics : a rhetorical approach to moral efficacy in the Fourth Gospel narrative.
… explore the ways of thinking and living that the Fourth Gospel narrative would likely have engendered. The study addresses the scarcity of explicit ethical material in John by demonstrating how participation in the bios genre suggests an implicit ethic. Attention to the Fourth Gospel's use of …
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Incarnation and Covenant in the Prologue to the Fourth Gospel (John 1:1-18)
… scholars would agree that the Prologue to the Fourth Gospel--as John 1:1-8 is usually called--introduces Jesus Christ as a divine, pre-existent being who at a certain point in time was made flesh and lived among humans. No agreement, however, exists on the point in the narrative at which the …
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Does the style of the apocalypse forbid its unity of authorship with the fourth gospel?
Th. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1894
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Rewriting Torah in the Fourth Gospel: with particular reference to scriptural interpretation in the Prologue
… aims to study some of the ways in which the Gospel of John uses the Jewish Scriptures, particularly the Law of Moses (Torah), in its presentation of Jesus. In addition to drawing attention to the testimony of Scripture (5:39) and to what Moses wrote about Jesus (5:45), the Gospel employs many …
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The relation of the paraclete to the spiritual presence of Jesus in the fourth gospel
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University
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Characterizing Jesus : a rhetorical analysis on the Fourth Gospel's use of Scripture in its presenation of Jesus.
This dissertation explores how the Fourth Gospel's use of Scripture contributes to its characterization of Jesus. Utilizing literary-rhetorical criticism, it approaches the Gospel in its final form, paying particular attention to how Greco-Roman rhetoric can assist in understanding the ways in …
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An investigation of the purpose and mutual relations of the Johannine Epistles
… there is the complex of queries surrounding the Fourth Gospel: its authorship, historicity, milieu, nature and date. In another direction is to be found the formidable set of challenges associated with the Johannine Apocalypse. No less difficult are the questions posed by the Epistles of John. …
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The Gospel of John and the Future of Israel
<p>The canonical gospels are each concerned to present the significance of Jesus vis-à-vis the Jewish tradition. Yet the Gospel of John exhibits a particularly strained relationship with Judaism, especially through its frequent description of Jesus’s opponents as “the Jews,” its presentation of …
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The Gift of Living Water: A study of the relationship between water symbolism and the Spirit in the Gospel of John
… between water symbolism and the Spirit in the Fourth Gospel. Through a narratological-exegetical approach, this study scrutinises John’s integration of water symbolism into the whole Gospel from the Prologue to the climactic moment of revelation at the Feast of Tabernacles (7:37-39), where …
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Bringing characters alive: sensory development in the Fourth Gospel’s characterisation
… and semiotics. It surveys how the author of the Fourth Gospel alludes to the human senses to build his characters to impact his readers. The research proposes the methodological joint approach to survey the sensory development of the characterisation of Nicodemus (3:1-21; 7:45-51; 19:38-42), the …
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