Unit 7: Early Christian Writings: Narratives March 19 John

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Unit 7 Early Christian Writings
NarrativesMarch 19 John

• Jesus, the Logos

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Thesis

• John is literary evidence for the diversity of
  early Christianity in representing the
  non-apocalyptic, realized eschatological ideology
  of the Wisdom-type the liberation that would
  have come with the parousia is now present in the
  Logos and the Spirit.

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Outline

• John and the Synoptics
• Wisdom literature
• Construction
• Paroimia / Parabolê
• Sign / Deed of Power
• Passion Narrative
• Conclusion