A Socinian-Racovian Style Reading of John's Prologue

In this article, the problems revolving around the Prologue and its relationship with the rest of the Gospel are investigated from a theological perspective. The research has tended to focus on such issues as the views of revelation and salvation found in the Prologue and the subsequent narrative and on their respective use of symbolism.

1992

The question of how to read the Bible is a perennial one. How do we interpret the God who claims to transcend our human categories? The difficulty is particularly acute in John's Gospel with its account of a man, Jesus, who claims to be God. Based on the principle that a text can present the radically transcendent only by disrupting itself, this book considers not just the sense of the Gospel, but also the breakdown of this sense. Focusing on its failure to humanly locate its central character and on the many misunderstandings which surround him, it presents a new approach to the Gospel's paradoxes. The result is a new definition of this sacred text based on a new hermeneutics.

This paper examines the current consensus that the background to the prologue of John is Jewish Wisdom speculation. Analysing the usual texts, it argues that the parallels are weak and that the prologue presents Jesus directly as 'the Word'.

This document discusses introductory issues to the Gospel of John

2012

This outline traces the argument of the Gospel of John with selected annotations in footnotes.

Pharos journal of theology, 2021

This article presents a literary exegetical analysis of the prologue (John 1:1-18) of the Johannine narrative with special attention to the author's (narrator's) point of view. The author sets the tone of his gospel and writes with literary beauty while showing his theological points of view that will be seen throughout his narrative to follow. He presents Jesus as the eternal λόγος of God, and thus provides a unique point of view toward the Son of God of the Father who exists from eternity past with God the Father. Merely by studying, reflecting on, and remembering the Gospel's prologue, the reader can understand and relate to the Christological and doxological significance of the Johannine narrative.

2016

One of the main themes in the Gospel of John is its Christology. Of the four Gospels, it is John who speaks with the greatest amount of clarity on the nature of the person of Jesus Christ. This includes, for example, the most explicit statements on the incarnation and the divinity of

The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures edited by: Briggs, Charles Augustus; Driver, Samuel Rolles; Plummer, Alfred; Brown, Francis, 1929

Part of the International Critical Commentary. The author is John Henry Bernard, (27 July 1860 – 29 August 1927). He was an Irish Anglican clergyman. As far as I know this book is in the public domain and I freely publish it here for people who search for a free but older commentary on the Gospel of John. It is also available in archive.org in many other formats. Published in 1929 by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.