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John and Philosophy

By Troels Engberg-Pedersen

John and Philosophy

By Troels Engberg-Pedersen

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John and Philosophy: A New Reading of the Fourth Gospel offers a Stoic reading of the Fourth Gospel, especially its cosmology, epistemology, and ethics. It works through the gospel in narrative sequence providing a philosophical narrative reading. In each section of the gospel TroelsEngberg-Pedersen raises discusses philosophical questions. He compares John with Paul (in philosophy) and Mark (in narrative) to offer a new reading of the transmitted text of the Fourth Gospel. Of these two profiles, the narrative one is strongly influenced by the literary critical paradigm.Moreover, by attending carefully to a number of narratological features, one may come to see that the transmitted text in fact hangs together much more coherently than scholarship has been willing to see. The other profile is specifically philosophical. Scholarship has been well aware that theFourth Gospel has what one might call a philosophical dimension. Engberg-Pedersen shows that throughout the Gospel contemporary Stoicism, works better to illuminate the text. This pertains to the basic cosmology (and cosmogony) that is reflected in the text, to the epistemology that underlies acentral theme in it regarding different types of belief in Jesus, to the ethics that is introduced fairly late in the text when Jesus describes how the disciples should live once he has himself gone away from them, and more.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
430
Release Date:
2017-04-09
Publication Date:
2017-04-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198792506
ISBN13:
9780198792505
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
807 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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