Divine Visibility in the Gospel of John
This article argues that John’s christology affirms the material visibility of God by reconciling the notion of an "unseen" God to the visibility of the Father that Jesus presents. Three pieces of evidence support this claim. The first is that "unseen" and "invisible" a...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Verificar disponibilidad: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Publicado: |
2024
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| En: |
Harvard theological review
Año: 2024, Volumen: 117, Número: 3, Páginas: 417-435 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Bibel. Johannesevangelium
/ Visibilidad
/ Dios
/ Teofanía
/ Jesus Christus
/ Platonismo
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | HC Nuevo Testamento NBB Revelación NBC Dios NBF Cristología VA Filosofía |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Fourth Gospel
B Theology B Christology B Invisibility B John B God B Isaiah B Theophany |
| Acceso en línea: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Sumario: | This article argues that John’s christology affirms the material visibility of God by reconciling the notion of an "unseen" God to the visibility of the Father that Jesus presents. Three pieces of evidence support this claim. The first is that "unseen" and "invisible" are not synonymous. A survey of Second Temple, biblical, and rabbinic literature reveals that one may not assume that all hellenized Jews embraced Platonist notions of invisibility. Second, Jesus presents the Father as visible, however restricted that visibility may be to Jesus’s person. Third, John’s use of Isaiah suggests that the visibility of God in the theophanies is consonant with God’s visibility in Jesus. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816024000166 |