What is truth?: A Johannine theological epistemology
This essay begins with Pilate's question - "What is truth?" - and notes the way it sets us up to long for a second-person experience of Jesus. I argue that this longing is met in the literary function of the Beloved Disciple, which prepares us for our own second-person encounter with...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2021
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 74, Issue: 2, Pages: 158-167 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
John
/ The beloved disciple
/ Holy Spirit
/ Cognition theory
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament NAB Fundamental theology NBG Pneumatology; Holy Spirit |
| Further subjects: | B
theological language
B Trinity B Epistemology B John B Beloved Disicple |
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| Summary: | This essay begins with Pilate's question - "What is truth?" - and notes the way it sets us up to long for a second-person experience of Jesus. I argue that this longing is met in the literary function of the Beloved Disciple, which prepares us for our own second-person encounter with Jesus. This raises some puzzles: can the Spirit convey to us a second-person encounter with Jesus? How do we know we have been so addressed by Jesus? Given John's above/below dualism, what does such an encounter mean for our theological language? I answer these questions in turn. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930621000338 |