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A Historical and Theological Investigation of John’s Gospel
Kirk R. MacGregor
A Historical and Theological Investigation of John’s Gospel
Kirk R. MacGregor Department of Philosophy & Religion McPherson College McPherson, KS, USA
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Preface
The purpose of this book is to advance new and underexplored theses on a host of issues concerning the Gospel of John in order to generate fresh and creative lines of thought within Johannine scholarship. Owing to the diversity of these issues, the book draws upon a variety of methodological approaches, including historical criticism, literary criticism, source criticism, reception history, and logical analysis. Each chapter of the volume will challenge some commonly held historical and/or theological assumptions about the Fourth Gospel and explain how these challenges can help reshape scholarly thinking about John. A brief description of each of the book’s major arguments and their value for future inquiry is provided below. Chapter 1 challenges the majority view of anonymous authorship of the Fourth Gospel and the sizeable minority view of authorship by the Apostle John. Following Jean Colson, Martin Hengel, Claude Tresmontant, Maria-Luisa Rigato, and especially Richard Bauckham, I propose that a different John—John the Elder, an eyewitness of Jesus’ actions in Jerusalem—stands as the author of the Fourth Gospel. I suggest that this Elder John was a Temple pr
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