The Christology of the Fourth Gospel: Its Unity and Disunity in the Light of John 6 (With a New Introduction, Outlines, and Epilogue)

by Anderson, Paul N.

• ISBN13: 9781606086292
• ISBN10: 1606086294
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

This important work not only contributes to understanding the origins and character of John's christological tensions, but it also outlines a new set of theories regarding several innovative dialogical approaches to The Johannine text. In his new introduction to this edition, Anderson engages constructively the responses of his reviewers and outlines his own theories regarding John's dialogical autonomy. Posing a comprehensive new synthesis regarding John's composition, situation history, relations to Synoptic traditions, agency Christology, historicity, and theological tensions, Anderson here summarizes his most significant theories published since it first appeared. In so doing, advances suggested by this pivotal text are laid out in a new set of paradigms addressing the Johannine riddles in fuller detail.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xxi
Preface to the Third Printing and Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Abbreviations	p. xxviii
List of Tables	p. xxxii
A New Introduction and Outlines	p. xxxv
A New Introduction	p. xxxvi
Developments in Thought over the Last Decade	p. xxxvii
The Epistemological Origins of John's Christological Tensions	p. xxxviii
The Johannine Dialogical Situation-In Longitudinal Perspective	p. xl
The Emergence of a Bi-Optic Hypothesis-A Larger Theory of Gospel-Tradition Interfluentiality	p. xlii
The Christ of Faith, the Jesus of History, and the Gospel of John	p. xlvi
The Dialogical Autonomy of the Fourth Gospel	p. li
Literary Levels of Dialogue	p. liii
Historical Aspects of Dialogue	p. liv
Theological Modes of Dialogue	p. Ivi
Johannine Christology in Context	p. lvii
Outlining Approaches to the Johannine Riddles	p. lx
A Two-Edition Theory of Johannine Composition	p. lxi
A Historical Outline of the Johannine Situation	p. lxiv
A Bi-Optic Hypothesis	p. lxviii
A Charting of Johannine-Synoptic Interfluential Relations	p. lxxiii
The Outline of Deuteronomy 18:15-22-The Religious Source of the Johannine Agency Motif	p. lxxiv
The Epistemological Origins of John's Theological Tensions	p. lxxix
Jesus in Bi-Optic Perspective: A Nuanced Proposal	p. lxxxii
Bibliographic Appendix: Relevant works by Paul N. Anderson since 1996	p. lxxxv
Introduction: Johns Christological Unity and Disunity: Identifying the Options	p. 1
Three Relevant Surveys
Recent Approaches to the Christology of the Fourth Gospel	p. 17
Comprehensive Overviews of John's Christology	p. 18
Text-Centered Approaches	p. 19
Theological-Christological Approaches	p. 23
Literary-Christological Approaches	p. 26
Historical-Chnstolagical Approaches	p. 29
Findings	p. 32
A Survey of Significant Commentaries	p. 33
Rudolf Bultmann	p. 33
C. K.Barrett	p. 36
Raymond E. Brown	p. 39
Rudolf Schnackenburg	p. 41
Barnabas Lindars	p. 44
Findings	p. 46
A Survey of Three Approaches to the Unity and Disunity of John 6	p. 48
Robert Kysar	p. 49
Peder Borgen	p. 52
C. K. Barrett	p. 61
Findings	p. 67
Summary of Part I	p. 68
The Unity and Disunity of John 6
The Stylistic Unity and Disunity of John 6	p. 72
Stylistic and Linguistic Evidence for the Sēmeia Source	p. 74
The Style of the Offenbarungsreden Material and the Reordering of the Text	p. 78
The Contribution of the Evangelist	p. 83
Findings	p. 87
The Relationship Between Sign and Discourse in John 6	p. 90
The Problem of Jesus' Answer	p. 91
The Problem of the Redundant Request	p. 94
The Discontinuity Between Sign and Discourse	p. 97
Findings	p. 107
The 'Eucharistic Interpolation'	p. 110
Excursus: What is Meant by 'Sacrament'?	p. 112
Was the Evangelist an Anti-sacramentalist?	p. 115
Ignatius of Antioch and the 'Medicine of Immortality'	p. 119
John 6:51c: Opening Sentence or Concluding Clause?	p. 127
Findings	p. 134
The Dialectical Character of John 6	p. 137
FaithDevelopment and Dialectical Thinking	p. 142
Dialectical Thinking and 'Transforming Encounters'	p. 148
Rudolf Bultmann and Dialectical Theologizing	p. 151
Findings	p. 163
Summary of Parr II	p. 166
John 6: Three Levels of Dialogue
Not an Attesting - MiracleàBut a 'Testing' Sign (an Exegesis of John 6: 1-24)	p. 170
John 6: l-24 (a translation)	p. 171
Exegetical Notes	p. 171
Discussion	p. 183
Findings	p. 392
The Exhoration of the 'Two Ways' (an Exegesis of John 6:25-66)	p. 194
John 6:25-66 (a translation)	p. 197
Exegetical Notes	p. 199
Discussion	p. 210
Findings	p. 219
Returning the 'Keys of the Kingdom' to Jesus (an Exegesis of John 6:67-71)	p. 221
John 6:67-71 (a translation)	p. 226
Exegetical Notes	p. 226
Discussion	p. 232
Findings	p. 249
Summary of Part III	p. 250
Conclusion: On 'Seamless Robes'àand 'Left-Over Fragments'	p. 252
Implications	p. 263
Postscript	p. 264
Appendices	p. 266
John's Exalted Christology	p. 266
John's Subordinated Christology	p. 267
Johannine Signs as Facilitators of Belief	p. 268
Johannine Signs and the Existentializing Work of the Evangelist	p. 269
Realized Eschatology in John	p. 270
Futuristic Eschatology in John	p. 271
Philo's Use of Manna as a Secondary Text	p. 272
The Papias Tradition, John's Authorship and Luke-Acts	p. 274
Bibliographies	p. 278
The Christology of John	p. 278
John 6	p. 287
The Sacraments in John	p. 291
Johannine Christianity	p. 293
Interdisciplinary Resources	p. 295
Indexes	p. 297
Scripture and Ancient Texts	p. 297
Names	p. 316
Thematic Index	p. 320
Epilogue: Responses to The Christology of the Fourth Gospel and Continuing Inquiry	p. 330
Consensus Appraisals	p. 332
Majority Reports	p. 336
Minority Opinions	p. 339
Individual Comments	p. 345
Epilogue: Responses to The Christology of the Fourth Gospel and Continuing Inquiry	p. 330
Consensus Appraisals	p. 330
Majority Reports	p. 336
Minority Opinions	p. 339
Individual Comments	p. 345
Extended Engagements	p. 351
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