...John’s Gospel has been traditionally regarded as a “spiritual gospel,” which is concerned with the revelation of Jesus’ identity as the Messiah and Son of God. An ecological reading of the gospel, however, highlights the close identification of Jesus with the natural world. The prologue states...

...This chapter examines Eriugena’s performance as an exegete in his Homily on the Prologue to St John’s Gospel. While it is true that the commentary and homily can be said to belong to two different literary genres, these two genres are very closely related in having exegesis of one...

... by Jesus and, in the space of a few hours, became a missionary for him. In what seemed like a perfectly chance meeting, his grace and beauty worked on her very quickly. The encounter with the royal official in chapter 4 of John’s Gospel reports someone whose faith in the word of Jesus led not only...

...This article outlines a theoretical framework of ideological criticism and illustrates it with a number of recent discussions of John’s Gospel that utilize ideological and postcolonial approaches, often from specific personal, political, and social ‘locations’ of enquiry. It also examines analyses...

... they can be useful in establishing what pre-Gospel Palestinian tradition may have look like. This chapter also looks at the recent use of John’s Gospel in the reconstruction of the historical Jesus and argues that, despite all the new arguments, John’s Gospel is still of minimal use, not only...

... your good spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and gave them water for their thirst. The key point of note is that the true bread in John’s gospel is identified with the revelation constituted by the personal presence of Jesus: ‘For the bread of 260 God...

... of St. John’s Gospel, represent a journey between paganism and Christianity and, if so, in which direction. Evidence of the relationship between biographical information and written work of several near contemporaries is brought to bear on the claims that have been made about Nonnus...

...Over the centuries the church’s focus on the Prologue of John’s Gospel has been upon its implications for our understanding of the person of Jesus, that this ‘Word become flesh’ is the one who was with God and who was God in the beginning. But this passage is radically significant also for what...

... as the eschatological temple in John’s Gospel, the concept of access to the heavenly temple in the book of Hebrews, and the description of the New Jerusalem in the Book of Revelation. Each uses covenant imagery, specifically drawn from the new covenant promise of Jeremiah 31 and read in terms of other prophetic texts...

..., takes its place after the personal self-disclosure of God. First and foremost, revelation is the gratuitous, redemptive self-manifestation of the tripersonal God which empowers human beings to respond with faith. In particular, John’s Gospel presents Jesus as the self-disclosure of God in person...