John: History, Community, and Ideology. By Francisco Lozada Jr
Francisco Lozada Jr’s John: History, Community, and Ideology is an introduction and study guide to the Gospel of John in the T&T Clark Guides to the New Testament series. In the book, Lozada approaches John from ‘a literary and ideological perspective, informed by a sociohistorical orientation’...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 957-959 |
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| Summary: | Francisco Lozada Jr’s John: History, Community, and Ideology is an introduction and study guide to the Gospel of John in the T&T Clark Guides to the New Testament series. In the book, Lozada approaches John from ‘a literary and ideological perspective, informed by a sociohistorical orientation’ (p. ix). What this means is that along with introducing the Gospel of John and its interpretational issues, he draws attention to ideological readings that stand behind various interpretations of the Fourth Gospel. He is concerned with how the constructed meaning ‘serves to sustain and legitimate systems of power’ (p. 1). Lozada presents his literary-ideological approach more fully in the introduction and states that his ideological perspective is a response to Western concepts of history, meaning, and development that shape Johannine (and New Testament) studies. He urges interpreters to think about how they construct their historical and literary understandings of the Fourth Gospel and how those understandings shape subsequent interpretations. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flab147 |