RT Article
T1 Divine Visibility in the Gospel of John
JF Harvard theological review
VO 117
IS 3
SP 417
OP 435
A1 Irwin, Luke
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1909471321
AB This article argues that John’s christology affirms the material visibility of God by reconciling the notion of an "unseen" God to the visibility of the Father that Jesus presents. Three pieces of evidence support this claim. The first is that "unseen" and "invisible" are not synonymous. A survey of Second Temple, biblical, and rabbinic literature reveals that one may not assume that all hellenized Jews embraced Platonist notions of invisibility. Second, Jesus presents the Father as visible, however restricted that visibility may be to Jesus’s person. Third, John’s use of Isaiah suggests that the visibility of God in the theophanies is consonant with God’s visibility in Jesus.
K1 Fourth Gospel
K1 God
K1 Isaiah
K1 John
K1 Christology
K1 Invisibility
K1 Theology
K1 Theophany
DO 10.1017/S0017816024000166