Johannine ethics : the moral world of the Gospel and Epistles of John / Sherri Brown and Christopher W. Skinner, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Sherri, editor.

Skinner, Christopher W., editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. John--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. John.

Bible. Epistles of John--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible. Epistles of John.

Ethics in the Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvi, 319 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2017]

System Details:

text file

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-311) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781506438467

1506438466

Publisher Number:

40027717105

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