The Ethics of John: Retrospect and Prospects

Jan van der Watt, Matthijs Den Dulk (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
9789004722583 (ISBN)

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What does John have to offer in terms of ethical content? In this volume, leading experts evaluate Jan van der Watt’s recent major contributions to this question and explore future prospects for the study of Johannine ethics.

Over the past two decades the scholarly conversation has shifted from the practically consensus view that John has little to offer in terms of ethical content to a more robust understanding of how Johannine literature engages ethical questions. This process recently reached a milestone with the publication of two seminal tomes on Johannine ethics by Jan van der Watt. Based on the Radboud Prestige Lectures he delivered on this topic, the present volume evaluates van der Watt’s approach by submitting it to critical evaluation by leading specialists in the field, and explores future prospects for the study of Johannine ethics.

Jan G. van der Watt, DD (1986) and D.Litt (1999), University of Pretoria, is Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Matthijs den Dulk, Ph.D. (2015), University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and the Academic Director of the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NOSTER).

Preface

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Matthijs den Dulk

2 The Ethics of the Fourth Gospel: a Grammatical Approach

Jan G. van der Watt

3 Beginning with God and Ending with Ethics? Some Theological Reflections on Jan van der Watt’s Ethical Grammar and Its Principles of Construction

Jörg Frey

4 Die Voraussetzungen, Grund-Strukturen und Inhalte der johanneischen Ethik

Udo Schnelle

5 Love of Outsiders in the Johannine Writings? A Critical Evaluation of a Tendency in Recent Research on Johannine Ethics

Matthias Konradt

6 The Imitable Ethic of Self-Sacrificial Love: Johannine Ethics as a Reworking of Markan Ethics

Elizabeth J. B. Corsar

7 The Centre of Johannine Ethics

Cornelis Bennema

8 The Centrality of “Life” for Johannine Ethics

Craig R. Koester

9 The Ethos of John’s Prologue

R. Alan Culpepper

10 Consuming the Word of God: the Qualifier, Norm and Model for Ethical Conduct

Susanne Luther

11 Why Should One Adopt the Ethics of John?

Christoph Hübenthal

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Erscheinungsdatum	15.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Biblical Interpretation Series ; 227
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch; deutsch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-13	9789004722583 / 9789004722583
Zustand	Neuware