Us and Them: Lessons from 1 John's Antichrist Polemic
First John can be read in a very dualistic form, the "us" of the Johannine community versus the "them" who have denied Christ and gone out from the community. But a closer reading of 1 John, in tandem with the Gospel of John, suggests that the situation is not so clear-cut; "...
Subtitles: | "Johannine epistles" |
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Format: | Print Article |
Language: | English |
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Seminaries
[2021]
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Word & world
Year: 2021, Volume: 41, Issue: 1, Pages: 42-50 |
Further subjects: | B
Repentance - Biblical teaching
B Intertextuality in the Bible B Jesus Christ - Betrayal B John 6 B Bible. Epistle of John I - Criticism, Literary B Antichrist - Biblical teaching B Rhetoric in the Bible B Disciples, Twelve B Bible. Epistle of John I - Theology |