"It is the Spirit that gives life" : a Stoic understanding of pneuma in John's Gospel /
Since Origen and Chrysostom, Johns Gospel has been valued as the most spiritual among the New Testament writings. Although Origen recognizes the Stoic character of Johns statement that "God is pneuma" (4:24), an examination of the gospel in light of Stoic physics has not yet been carried o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter,
©2010.
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Colección: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche ;
Beiheft 173. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. History of Research. Cosmos in the Fourth Gospel; Chapter 2. Cosmology in Stoicism. The Discourse of Physics; Chapter 3. Philo's Divine Generation. The Safer Way to Truth; Chapter 4. The First Pneumatic Event. The Descent of the Spirit as Jesus' Divine Generation; Chapter 5. John's Call from the Wilderness for a Better Guidance of the Way to the Lord; Chapter 6. Regeneration as Hermeneutical Competence. The Johannine Signs and the Meta-Story of Pneumatic Transformations.
- Chapter 7. The Penultimate Pneumatic Event. "It Is the Spirit That Gives Life" (6:63). Jesus' Ascent and Translation into the FatherChapter 8. The Ultimate Pneumatic event. Worshippers in Spirit and Truth. The Quest for the Father The Quest of the Father; Backmatter.