Hearing John's voice : insights for teaching and preaching /

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Author / Creator:	Boring, M. Eugene, author.
Imprint:	Grand Rapids, Michigan : Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2019.
Description:	xiv, 351 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Bible. -- John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- Epistles of John -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- Revelation -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- Epistles of John. Bible. -- John. Bible. -- Revelation. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13169439

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ISBN:	9780802875464 0802875467
Notes:	Includes endnotes (pages 319-321), bibliography (pages 323-329) and indexes. committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary:	This book is written in the conviction that the church is called into being and nourished by the Word of God that comes through Scripture. But how can Scripture offer any specific guidance for hearers lives today? What are modern readers to make of the dragons and slaughtered lambs in the book of Revelation? What are we to make of a man who turns water into wine while comparing himself to bread? Can people today know what the Bible says and means? The world of the Bible is strange and distant, not only in time and space but also in language, culture, and in its basic assumptions about reality. The first task in both pulpit and pew is not to be in too great a hurry to overcome this distance, but to acknowledge it and respect it. Communication across the gap is the task of the church's preachers and teachers. Drawing on his years of teaching and study, Eugene Boring offers a way of opening the ears of those who take the message of the Bible seriously, a message from a world different from our own. Beginning with Revelation, Boring provides a historically informed and pastorally sensitive reading of the various Johannine voices in the New Testament for contemporary preachers and teachers.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Preface
Prologue
1. Beginning at the End
Beginning with Revelation
Strange New World within the Bible
Revelation Is Prophecy and Theology
Revelation, Reality, and the Power of Words
A Narrative World of Conflicting Imagery
Approaching Revelation, Getting into Apocalyptic
Revelation Is a Church Document
2. The Revelation of Jesus Christ and the One True God
Revelation 1-Christological Monotheism
Revelation 2-3-the Church of the Living God, Warts and All
Revelation 4-5-the Triune God: Mission Control of the Universe
Revelation 6-18-God the Righteous Judge: Violence, Divine and Human
Revelation 19-22-in the End, God: The New World Coming and Already Here
3. Tensions and Conflicts in the Beloved Community: The Johannine Letters
Pluralistic World
Fragmented Church
Disputed Christology
4. Retelling the Jesus Christ Story: Soundings in the Theology of the Gospel of John
A Brief Theological Introduction to the Gospel of John
John's Introduction: Prologue and Testimony (1:1-18)
Book One, the Triumphal Entry and Presence: The Incarnate Word Confronts the World (1:19-12:50)
Book Two, the Triumphal Departure and Return: Farewell Instruction for Those Left Behind (13:1-21:25)
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names and Subjects
Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources

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