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Wisdom Christology in the Gospel of John
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Books > Scripture > John
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| Author/Artist: |
DUSTIN R SMITH |
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9798385211395 |
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Wipf & Stock |
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PAPERBACK |
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AU$58.95 |
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This volume contends that the Gospel of John presents the most thorough and robust Wisdom Christology of all the New Testament books. Wisdom Christology, the christological concept that applies the roles, characteristics, and functions of God's personified wisdom to the man Jesus Christ, is displayed to be skillfully interwoven throughout all twenty-one chapters of the Fourth Gospel, starting with the famous prologue.
Dustin Smith challenges the common tendency to read later church views of Jesus into the Gospel of John. Instead, he shows that understanding Jesus in light of Jewish Wisdom writings reveals John's focus on monotheism and portrays Jesus as the Father's empowered human agent, embodying Lady Wisdom.
'.....Drawing on the canonical books and intertestamental texts, the figure of Lady Wisdom is shown to be a major lens through which Jesus is portrayed in the Gospel. Smith's excellent study hopefully opens up the Wisdom literature as an essential part of late second-Temple Jewish theology, and therefore a necessary part of the world of the first believers and evangelists."
Mary Coloe, professor emerita of New Testaament, University of Divinity, Melbourne. |
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