"It is the Spirit that Gives Life" : : A Stoic Understanding of Pneuma in John's Gospel / / Gitte Buch-Hansen.
Since Origen and Chrysostom, John’s Gospel has been valued as the most spiritual among the New Testament writings. Although Origen recognizes the Stoic character of John’s statement that “God is pneuma” (4:24), an examination of the gospel in light of Stoic physics has not yet been carried out. Comb...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (502 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Father
- Chapter 8. The Ultimate Pneumatic event. Worshippers in Spirit and Truth. The Quest for the Father – The Quest of the Father
- Backmatter