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The Community of Eternal Life is a work which employs a peculiar exegetical methodology of a four-level reading of the text to demonstrate the fact that the vision of eternal life played a key role in holding together the disparate groups that lie behind the Fourth Gospel and the three Johannine epistles.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Dedication Chapter 2 Abbreviations Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 Acknowledgments Chapter 5 Introduction Chapter 6 Theme, Reviews, Method and Scope of the Study: Chapter 7 Life: Theme of Johannine Writings Chapter 8 Johannine Life in Recent Scholarship Chapter 9 Methods and Scope of Study Chapter 10 Community Tension and Theme of Life: Chapter 11 Presuppositions and Principles Chapter 12 Issues Concerning the Tension Chapter 13 Nationalities Involved in the Tension Chapter 14 Sources of the Community Crisis Chapter 15 Literary Resolution Using Theme of Life Chapter 16 The Johannine Meaning of Life: Chapter 17 The Johannine Vision of Life Chapter 18 The Johannine Symbolism Chapter 19 Life/Eternal Life as Johannine Central Symbolism Chapter 20 The Johannine Jesus as Meaning Incarnate Chapter 21 Expressions of Meaning in John Chapter 22 The Eternal Life Community Chapter 23 Roots of the Johannine Life: Chapter 24 Distinctiveness of the Johannine Life Chapter 25 The Johannine and Synoptic- Acts Conceptions of Life Chapter 26 The Johannine and Pauline Conceptions of Life Chapter 27 The Johannine Life and Old Testament Traditions Chapter 28 The Johannine Life and the Greco-Roman Culture Chapter 29 Johannine Life: Theology and Actualization: Chapter 30 The Johannine Theological Approach Chapter 31 Theology of Human Origin Chapter 32 Theology of the Human Situation Chapter 33 Theology of Human Spirituality Chapter 34 Theology of Human Destiny Chapter 35 Conclusion Chapter 36 Bibliography
About the author
David Asonye Ihenacho is Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies and Campus Minister, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut.
