Johannine Studies 1975-2017

Johannine Studies 1975-2017
Author: Francis J. Moloney
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2017-03-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9783161549601

The voice of Francis J. Moloney has been heard in Johannine studies for many decades. This volume gathers shorter journal articles from a publishing career that began in 1975, placing them together with new studies that appear for this first time, and thus complementing Moloney's already well-known commentary and scholarly monographs on the Fourth Gospel. The author's work has encompassed all areas of Johannine scholarship - the world that produced and first received the Fourth Gospel, its theology and Christology, and critical analysis of much-discussed passages. Well known for his extensive use of narrative and reader-response criticism, Francis J. Moloney has in more recent years developed an interpretation of the gospel which suggests that the author(s) of this narrative regarded their work as the "completion" of scripture. This unique collection therefore not only provides the past publications of a significant Johannine scholar, but also reflects the development of Johannine scholarship from 1975 until today.

The Apocalypse of John

The Apocalypse of John
Author: Francis J. SDB Moloney
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493423797

In this major, paradigm-shifting commentary on Revelation, internationally respected author Francis Moloney brings his keen narrative and exegetical work to bear on one of the most difficult, mysterious, and misinterpreted texts in the biblical canon. Challenging the assumed consensus among New Testament scholars, Moloney reads Revelation not as an exhortation to faithfulness in a period of persecution but as a celebration of the ongoing effects of Jesus's death and resurrection. Foreword by Eugenio Corsini.

Letters to the Johannine Circle

Letters to the Johannine Circle
Author: Moloney, Francis J., SDB
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2020
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1587688441

The study is an up-to-date simple commentary upon the Johannine Letters that engages with contemporary discussions of a Johannine community, its literature, the world it addressed, and the questions they pose to the contemporary Christian.

Interfigural Readings of the Gospel of John

Interfigural Readings of the Gospel of John
Author: Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger
Publisher: SBL Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2019-11-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 088414402X

New and challenging readings of biblical characters This volume of collected essays introduces the concept of interfigurality, the interrelations and interdependence between characters in the Gospel of John and in the Synoptic Gospels and the Hebrew Bible.The essays are informed by a narrative-critical reader-response, (post)feminist hermeneutics and an autobiographical approach to biblical texts. This volume encourages transformative encounters between present-day readers and the ancient biblical texts. Features: Previously unpublished conference papers and published essays A new perspective on the relation between New Testament and Hebrew Bible Foreword by Fernando F. Segovia Ingrid Rosa Kitzberger is an independent scholar and the author of Transformative Encounters: Jesus and Women Re-viewed (1999) and the editor of The Personal Voice in Biblical Interpretation (1998) and Autobiographical Biblical Criticism: Between Text and Self (2002).

Johannine Belief and Graeco-Roman Devotion

Johannine Belief and Graeco-Roman Devotion
Author: Chris Seglenieks
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3161597583

"In this volume, Christopher Seglenieks offers a study of the complex meaning in John's Gospel of genuine belief, arguing it includes cognitive, relational, ethical, ongoing, and public aspects. He compares it with Graeco-Roman religious practices and highlights the distinctiveness of Johannine belief whose features are motivated by John's picture of Jesus." --

Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences

Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences
Author: Susanne Luther
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2023-10-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110717484

Travel and pilgrimage have become central research topics in recent years. Some archaeologists and historians have applied globalization theories to ancient intercultural connections. Classicists have rediscovered travel as a literary topic in Greek and Roman writing. Scholars of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have been rethinking long-familiar pilgrimage practices in new interdisciplinary contexts. This volume contributes to this flourishing field of study in two ways. First, the focus of its contributions is on experiences of travel. Our main question is: How did travelers in the ancient world experience and make sense of their journeys, real or imaginary, and of the places they visited? Second, by treating Jewish, Christian, and Islamic experiences together, this volume develops a longue durée perspective on the ways in which travel experiences across these three traditions resembled each other. By focusing on "experiences of travel," we hope to foster interaction between the study of ancient travel in the humanities and that of broader human experience in the social sciences.

Fullness of Life and Justice for All

Fullness of Life and Justice for All
Author: Thomas Eggensperger
Publisher: ATF Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 192567942X

Poverty, inequality, violent conflicts, climate change, migration, racism, burn-out are just a few of the symptoms showing how living life to the fullest is out of reach for so many people in our world. Is, then, seeking 'fullness of life and justice for all' not a too ambitious project? For nothing less than the wellbeing of humanity - and in extension, the whole of creation - is at stake. On the other hand, we see people responding, acting and struggling for justice, liberation and a more sustainable world. How to make sense of the ideas of fullness of life and justice for all, in light of the many crises humanity currently faces but also the glimpses of positive and hopeful responses? Even more so, how to make sense theologically? In this volume twenty authors reflect on how the notions of fullness of life and justice for all are theoretically conceived and have practically taken form from within Dominican theology and spirituality. The contributions on youth spirituality, contemplation, art as a means to community building, gender, pluralization, populism and management discuss the fullness of life in both its material and spiritual dimensions. The question on justice for all is raised in confrontation with issues such as poverty, migration, ecological threats and the role of virtues in society. In this way, the book aims to uncover a variety of Dominican perspectives as valuable contributions to a broader dialogue on the fullness of life and justice for all.

The Enduring Impact of the Gospel of John

The Enduring Impact of the Gospel of John
Author: Robert A. Derrenbacker
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2022-09-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666738697

John’s Gospel possesses a generous range of meanings and has had an enduring impact across the generations. This book explores that impact from a range of disciplines: from the exegetical and theological to the historical, spiritual, liturgical, musical, pastoral, political, and postcolonial. It encompasses contributions from a number of scholars and writers associated with Trinity College, University of Divinity, Melbourne, who all share a common love for this Gospel and a conviction of its continuing relevance. Australian biblical scholar Professor Francis J. Moloney SDB says in his foreword that various “receptions” of the Fourth Gospel are illuminatingly explored in this book, which demonstrates how the Gospel of John has played a critical role in shaping the theology and culture of the Christian tradition.

Gospel Interpretation and Christian Life

Gospel Interpretation and Christian Life
Author: Francis J Moloney
Publisher: ATF Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1925643115

The voice of Francis J Moloney, SDB, has been heard in New Testament studies for many decades. Internationally famous for his work on the Gospel of John, this volume gathers studies that demonstrate the breadth and richness of his interests, beyond that well-established enterprise. The first part of the boom is dedicated to Gospel studies, with the majority of essays focussing upon the Gospel of Mark. They reflect his long interest and his major commentary on that Gospel (2012). Studies on Matthew, Luke and John complete these reflections.

Diving into the Gospel of John

Diving into the Gospel of John
Author: Bruce R. Reichenbach
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2023-02-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666742074

Diving into the Gospel of John displays the rich and diverse arguments John presents for his thesis that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing, readers/listeners will find eternal life. John’s arguments are developed in four parts. The first two chapters develop the author’s literary techniques that are often based on ambiguity and his key symbols and concepts, the understanding of which are essential to fully appreciate the Gospel. Chapters 3 through 6 progressively portray the author’s evidence for his thesis in the form of signs, testimony of those who encounter Jesus, Jesus’s self-identification, and Jesus’s relationships to others. Chapters 7 and 8 show how the author uses theatrically patterned dialogues and triadic discourses to convey Jesus’s identity and mission. Finally, chapters 9 through 11 provide important hints that the author gives for his thesis: Jesus’s appeals to time, the indirect use of seven as the number of completeness, and invocation of parentage in pointing to salvation. Through diving into the Gospel, readers will discover the richness of John’s argument, the Jesus he portrays, and the God Jesus reveals. The book aims to stimulate commitment, challenge mind and spirit, and encourage further reflection and conversation.