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This study brings three different kinds of readers of the Gospel of John together with the theological goal of understanding what is meant by Incarnation and how it relates to Pascha, the Passion of Christ, how this is conceived of as revelation, and how we speak of it.
List of contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Gospel of John and Christian Theology
- Part I: John The Theologian And His Paschal Gospel
- 1: John the Evangelist
- 2: The Paschal Gospel
- Part II: 'It Is Finished'
- 3: 'The Temple of his Body'
- 4: 'Behold the Human Being'
- 5: The Prologue as a Paschal Hymn
- Part III: The Phenomenology of Life in Flesh
- 6: Johannine Arch-Intelligibility
- 7: History, Phenomenology, and Theology
- Conclusion: A Prologue to Theology
- Bibliography
- Index of cited passages
- Index of authors
About the author
John Behr is the Regius Chair in Humanity at the University of Aberdeen. He previously served as Fr George's Florovsky Distinguished Professor of Patristics at St Vladimir's Seminary, where he acted as Dean from 2007-17, and the Metropolitan Kallistos Chair of Orthodox Theology at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. His publications include critical editions and translations of the fragments of Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopuestia (2011) and
Origen's On First Principles (2017). He is the author of
Irenaeus of Lyons: Identifying Christianity (2013),
Becoming Human: Theological Anthropology in Word and Image (2013), and
Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000).
Summary
This study brings three different kinds of readers of the Gospel of John together with the theological goal of understanding what is meant by Incarnation and how it relates to Pascha, the Passion of Christ, how this is conceived of as revelation, and how we speak of it.
Additional text
A Prologue to Theology is an opus magnum that needs to be studied thoroughly in today's theology departments and seminaries around the globe and which invites, if not demands, further theological investigation along this initiated path.
