The Most Usual Interpretation Put On The Three Epistles Is That They Were Written In The Sequence 1, 2, And 3 And Came After The Gospel. ... The Present Writer Has Great Respect For Proponents Of This Theory But Does Not Espouse It Or Indeed Any Other On The Circumstances Of Composition. The Attempt Here Is Simply To Explore What The Three Epistles May Be Saying When Their Meaning Is Obscure And To Make Accessible Their Mesage To The Church Of The Present When It Is Not.there Are So Many Echoes Of Biblical Passages From Both Testaments In This Brief Body Of Literature That It Would Be Tedious To Cite Them All. A Selection Has Been Made. The Remarkable Thing Is How Much Of It From The Newer Testament Is Extra-johannine. ... In All, The Field Is So Richly Planted That It Is An Exercise In Arrogance To Attempt To Harvest An Additional Yield. The Present Writer's Comfort Must Be The Ancient Tag Line, Non Nova Sed Nove. There Is Nothing New In What Follows But One Thing Or Another May Be Expressed, Without Novelty, In A New Way.--introduction To The Letters, Pages 3-6. Introduction To The Letters -- The First Letter Of John -- The Second Letter Of John -- The Third Letter Of John. Gerard S. Sloyan. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 77-78) And Indexes.

Walking in the Truth: Perseverers and Deserters (New Testament in Context)

Sloyan, Gerard Stephen

Gerard Stephen Sloyan

Continuum International Publishing Group, Limited

Bloomsbury T&T Clark

New Testament in context, Valley Forge Pa, cop. 1995

United States, United States of America

1, PS, 1995

Includees bibliographical references (p. 77-78) and indexes.

This volume in the New Testament in Context (NTC) commentary series is a concise treasure-trove of information about two New Testament letters (2 and 3 John) and a treatise or sermon (1 John). Issues of authorship and province are considered, and related commentaries by Bultmann, Schnackenberg, and Brown are engaged. In contract to the infinite detail of these latter commentaries, Gerard Sloyans work stands as a paragon of clarity, insight, and access to the meaning of the Johannine letters. The overall effect provides the reader with perspective on the kinds of issueschristological, ethical, organizational, and theologicalthat were troubling and dividing the church in the second century.Gerard S. Sloyan is a priest of the Diocese of Trenton (NJ) and Professor Emeritus of Religion at Temple University. He is currently a visiting professor in the School of Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America. His most recent book is The Crucifixion of History, Myth, Faith.

vii, 85 p. ; 22 cm
Includees bibliographical references (p. 77-78) and indexes

2023-06-28