Description
Book SynopsisThe Community of Eternal Life is a work which employs a peculiar exegetical methodology of a four-level reading of the text to demonstrate the fact that the vision of eternal life played a key role in holding together the disparate groups that lie behind the Fourth Gospel and the three Johannine epistles. To demonstrate this claim, David A. Ihenacho embarks on an in depth consideration of the thematic nature of the Johannine idea of eternal life, an examination of the integrative power of the Johannine concept of eternal life and the implication of its exegetical and theological contents. Ihenacho then advances from a historical consideration of the eternal life texts, to sociological and literary considerations, and finally to a theological consideration.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Dedication
Chapter 2 Abbreviations
Chapter 3 Preface
Chapter 4 Acknowledgments
Chapter 5 Introduction
Chapter 6
Theme, Reviews, Method and Scope of the Study:Chapter 7 Life: Theme of Johannine Writings
Chapter 8 Johannine Life in Recent Scholarship
Chapter 9 Methods and Scope of Study
Chapter 10
Community Tension and Theme of Life:Chapter 11 Presuppositions and Principles
Chapter 12 Issues Concerning the Tension
Chapter 13 Nationalities Involved in the Tension
Chapter 14 Sources of the Community Crisis
Chapter 15 Literary Resolution Using Theme of Life
Chapter 16
The Johannine Meaning of Life:Chapter 17 The Johannine Vision of Life
Chapter 18 The Johannine Symbolism
Chapter 19 Life/Eternal Life as Johannine Central Symbolism
Chapter 20 The Johannine Jesus as Meaning Incarnate
Chapter 21 Expressions of Meaning in John
Chapter 22 The Eternal Life Community
Chapter 23
Roots of the Johannine Life:Chapter 24 Distinctiveness of the Johannine Life
Chapter 25 The Johannine and Synoptic- Acts Conceptions of Life
Chapter 26 The Johannine and Pauline Conceptions of Life
Chapter 27 The Johannine Life and Old Testament Traditions
Chapter 28 The Johannine Life and the Greco-Roman Culture
Chapter 29
Johannine Life: Theology and Actualization:Chapter 30 The Johannine Theological Approach
Chapter 31 Theology of Human Origin
Chapter 32 Theology of the Human Situation
Chapter 33 Theology of Human Spirituality
Chapter 34 Theology of Human Destiny
Chapter 35 Conclusion
Chapter 36 Bibliography
