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Book The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple

Download or read book The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple written by James P. Carse and published by Harper San Francisco. This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A stunning new gospel--in the words of Jesus' beloved disciple, a woman."--Dust jacket.

Book The Beloved Disciple

    Book Details:
  • Author : Beth Moore
  • Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 0805427538
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Beloved Disciple written by Beth Moore and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Beloved Disciple" is the trade book adaptation of the bestselling, video-based, interactive Bible study "Beloved Disciple." It shows readers that John was uniquely chosen to be the one who received the Revelation of Jesus Christ, and that Christ still desires to reveal Himself to His disciples today.

Book The Beloved Disciple

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  • Author : James H. Charlesworth
  • Publisher : Burns & Oates
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 520 pages

Download or read book The Beloved Disciple written by James H. Charlesworth and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1995 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gospel of John refers five times to "the disciple whom Jesus loved." From the second through the present century, scholars have sought to identify this "disciple," traditionally concluding that he is the author of the Gospel and is indeed none other than John the son of Zebedee." "In recent phases of research, however, the identification of the Beloved Disciple with John the son of Zebedee has been exposed as weak and unpersuasive. Yet, according to James Charlesworth, even this new research is problematic in that it tends to ascribe priority in discerning the meaning of the Gospel of John to documents other than the Gospel itself. Moreover, this research tends to impute historical accuracy to documents that were not primarily intended to present histories." "Based on extensive research, then, Professor Charlesworth has concluded that the primary texts in the Gospel of John and the reflections of modern scholars indicate that any identification of the Beloved Disciple - whether with one of the disciples specified in the Gospel, with one who is anonymous in this Gospel, or with some symbolic theme - must provide credible answers to eight questions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple

Download or read book The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple written by Richard Bauckham and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading New Testament scholar explores key issues in the Gospel of John.

Book The Secret of the Beloved Disciple

Download or read book The Secret of the Beloved Disciple written by James F. Twyman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the author on his worldwide adventures as he learns the mysterious identity of the Emissaries of Light, an ancient community of spiritual masters said to have existed for thousands of years.

Book The Community of the Beloved Disciple

Download or read book The Community of the Beloved Disciple written by Raymond Edward Brown and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study in Johannine ecclesiology reconstructs the history of one Christian community in the first century -- a community whose life from its inception to its last hour is reflected in the Gospel and Epistles of John. It was a community that struggled with the world, with the Jews, and with other Christians. Eventually the struggle spread even to its own ranks. It was, in short, a community not unlike the Church of today. This book offers a different view of the traditional Johannine eagle. In the Gospel the eagle soars above the earth, but with talons bared for the fray. In the Epistles we discover the eaglets tearing at each other for possession of the nest" -- Back cover.

Book Beloved Disciple   Bible Study Book  New Look

Download or read book Beloved Disciple Bible Study Book New Look written by Beth Moore and published by Lifeway Church Resources. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this classic content from the Beth Moore library for the first time or as a refresher to your faith. It is the same great Bible study with a new look! You Are Christ's Beloved John the apostle must have thought he had seen everything. Having been with Jesus all the years of His ministry, John witnessed more miracles than he could count, saw more displays of power than he could comprehend, and experienced more love than he could fathom. John was there when Jesus turned the water to wine, offered living Water to the woman at the well, yielded to His Father's will in the garden of Gethsemane, and gave His life on a Roman cross. And one unforgettable morning young John outran Peter to his Savior's empty tomb. Yet God had more in store for the Son of Thunder. As the other disciples were martyred one by one, John remained to write his sublime Gospel proclaiming Jesus' identity as the eternal Word of God. In his three letters John left a legacy of divine love to ignite the passion of future believers. And while exiled on Patmos, John recorded His risen Lord's glorious revelation of victory and hope. John referred to himself as "the disciple whom Jesus loved." Just as Christ took John on a lifelong journey into the depths of His love, He will do the same for you. The Bridegroom's love is unmatched and inexhaustible, and He is waiting to lavish it on you, His beloved. Features: Eleven teaching sessions available approximately one hour in length each session Classic, original teaching by Beth Moore Leader Guide available as free PDF on LifeWay.com/BelovedDisciple Personal Study to be completed between the 11 group sessions Benefits: Learn about the Beloved Disciple, John, and his life as a follower of Jesus. Discover John's legacy of love as you study God's Word. Find the heart of the Bridegroom for His Bride, the church, and for you.

Book Befriending The Beloved Disciple

Download or read book Befriending The Beloved Disciple written by Adele Reinhartz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-10-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adele Reinhartz has been studying and teaching the Gospel of John for many years. Earlier, she chose to ignore the love/hate relationship that the book provokes in her, a Jew, and took refuge in an "objective" historical-critical approach. At this stage her relationship to the Gospel was not so much a friendship as a business relationship. No longer willing to ignore the negative portrayal of Jews and Judaism in the text, nor the insight that her own Jewish identity inevitably does play a role in her work as an exegete, Reinhartz here explores the Fourth Gospel through the approach known as "ethical criticism," which is based on the metaphorical notion of the book as "friend"--not "an easy, unquestioning companionship," but the kind of honest relationship in which ethical considerations are addressed, not avoided. In a book as multilayered as the Gospel itself, Reinhartz engages in 4 different "readings" of the Fourth Gospel: compliant, resistant, sympathetic, and engaged. Each approach views the Beloved Disciple differently: as mentor, opponent, colleague, and as "other." In the course of each of these readings, she elucidates the three narrative levels that interpenetrate the Gospel: the historical, the cosmological, and the ecclesiological. In the latter, Reinhartz deals at length with the so-called expulsion theory, the dominant scholarly notion that the Johannine community, which included believers of Jewish, Gentile, and Samaritan origins, engaged in a prolonged and violent controversy with the local Jewish community, culminating in a "traumatic expulsion from the synagogue."

Book Beloved Disciple

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  • Author : Robin Griffith-Jones
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2008-09-09
  • ISBN : 006119199X
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Beloved Disciple written by Robin Griffith-Jones and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Griffith-Jones (Master of the Temple Church, London; The Four Witnesses: The Rebel, the Rabbi, the Chronicler, and the Mystic) takes a trendy Da Vinci Code topic and provides the scriptural and historical background that gave writers like Dan Brown license to cast Mary Magadalene as Jesus's presumed wife. Following a Gospel survey paying special attention to John's treatment of Mary, Griffith-Jones turns his focus to Gnostic works of the second and third centuries, and herein lies the work's primary strength. Unlike Susan Haskin in the impressive cultural history Mary Magdalene: Truth and Myth, Griffith-Jones here situates Mary in the canonical Christian scripture and then demonstrates Gnosticism's imaginative use of Mary as a site of incarnational theology, sexual dimorphism, and Sophia/Wisdom in creation. In the last chapter, he considers her evolution in aesthetic and cultural terms, with illustrations charting her evolution from repentant prostitute into an eroticized sexual figure embodying physical intimacy with the risen Christ. In Mary, claims Griffith-Jones, we glimpse our fundamental striving to understand what it means to be an embodied human being. An accessible read whose greatest usefulness is its Gnostic analysis; recommended.--Sandra Collins, Byzantine Catholic Seminary Lib., Pittsburgh Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Book The Gospel of Mary

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  • Author : Esther De Boer
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2005-06-20
  • ISBN : 9780826480019
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book The Gospel of Mary written by Esther De Boer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The success of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code has raised new interest in Mary Magdalene and in the Gospel of Mary. Here, the author examines Mary Magdalene's influence on the beginnings of Christianity and asks what was her impact and her message? And furthermore, what became of her and her ideas? Esther de Boer studies the Gospel of Mary (the only Gospel to be named after a woman) to discover what it reveals about Mary Magdalene and to determine the origin of its portrayal. She argues that the Gospel of Mary is not a Gnostic writing but is more closely related to the writings of Philo, the letters of Paul and the Gospel of John. She demonstrates that esteem of Mary Magdalene did not just belong to the Gnostic tradition but to a broader Christian context. In order to determine this context, the study identifies the different portrayals of Mary Magdalene in the New Testament, analyses their concepts of discipleship and their views on women, and investigates their historical 'reality'. Esther de Boer concludes that the portrayal of Mary Magdalene in the Gospel of Mary is close to that in the Gospel of John, and investigates the possibility that she is concealed in the Johannine disciple loved by Jesus.

Book The Beloved Disciple

Download or read book The Beloved Disciple written by Katherine C. Linforth and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Beloved Disciple

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  • Author : Rev. H. A. Rawes
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 1880
  • ISBN : 2917813393
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book The Beloved Disciple written by Rev. H. A. Rawes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1880 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple

Download or read book The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple written by Herman C. Waetjen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a general consensus that the Fourth Gospel underwent two editions. But in contrast to all previous efforts to reconstruct these two editions on the basis of source and redaction criticism, Waetjen maintains that these two editions essentially overlap without far-reaching changes. Chapter 1-20 originated within the Jewish community of Alexandria and were addressed to Jews in order to persuade them to "believe into" Jesus as the Messiah, the Son of God. The second edition originated when chapter 21 as added and certain revisions were made in chapters 1-20 by an editor in the Christian community of Ephesus in order to present the Gospel to Gentile Christians and perhaps attendantly to legitimate it for canonization. Waetjen examines John's gospel by engaging in a close reading of various units of the Gospel from the perspective of a two-level drama that presents two narrative worlds within the literary structure of the Gospel. Out of his readings of the texts, one of the major and provocative conclusions Waetjen draws is that Lazarus is the Beloved Disciple of Jesus in chapters 1-20. John, the son of Zebedee, is intimated to play the role of the Beloved Disciple not only in chapter 21, but throughout the Gospel. In other words, the editor of chapter 21 has concluded that John (based on the title that the gospel already bears), is the Beloved Disciple and project that backwards from chapter 21 throughout the previous 20 chapters. Waetjen's thorough scholarship and his attention to detail in his original readings challenge traditional readings of John's Gospel, providing fresh insights into the Gospel.

Book The Beloved Apostle

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  • Author : Michael J. Kok
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2017-11-03
  • ISBN : 1532610211
  • Pages : 187 pages

Download or read book The Beloved Apostle written by Michael J. Kok and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second-century Christians had a significant role in shaping the import of the literary sources that they inherited from the first century through their editorial revisions and the church traditions that they appended to them. Michael J. Kok critically investigates the supposed clues that encouraged select Christian intellectuals to infer that John, one of Jesus’ chosen twelve apostles, was the mysterious “disciple whom Jesus loved” and to ascribe the fourth canonical Gospel as well as four other New Testament books back to him. Kok outlines how the image of Saint John of Ephesus was constructed. Not all early Christians approved of the fourth canonical Gospel and some expressed strong reservations about its theology, preferring to link it with a heretical adversary rather than with an authoritative Christian founder figure. Discover how the moves made in the second century were crucial for determining whether this Gospel would be preserved at all for posterity, much less as part of the scriptural collection of the developing Orthodox Church.

Book The Beloved Disciple in Conflict

Download or read book The Beloved Disciple in Conflict written by Ismo Dunderberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could it be that the Gospel of John was written in response to the Gospel of Thomas, an early collection of Jesus's sayings? Or was the enigmatic Beloved Disciple in John's Gospel in fact Thomas? Ismo Dunderberg provides a critical examination of these theories.

Book Judas Beloved Disciple

Download or read book Judas Beloved Disciple written by Bill Brison and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bill Brison’s book on Judas brings to bear on this deepest enigma of the New Testament story both a sharp academic skill and a bold imagination. He makes us read the texts in a fresh and very challenging way – not simply induging in easy iconoclasm but obliging us to ask questions we never thought of so as to come closer to the historic heart of the faith. It deserves to be widely read and pondered, and I hope it will have the attentive readership it merits”. Rowan Williams while Archbishop of Canterbury “While not necessarily agreeing with the conclusions of your study, they deserve publication and should stimulate the thinking of any who are interested in the authorship the Gospel of St. John”. Stuart Blanch while Archbishop of York “I am deeply touched by your beautiful thought about Our Lord’s forgiveness of Judas and about the community’s forgiveness of him” Rev. Canon Charles Moule, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University “You will run into great opposition from the left, especially the liberal flank of New Testament scholars. The conservatives will welcome your careful handling of the text” The Rev. Dr. Brevard Childs, Professor of Old Testament at Yale University “I am surprised at the venom with which publishers responded to the manuscript. Judas seems to strike a raw nerve in the corporate consciousness” Dr. Matthew Melko, Professor of Peace Studies “Brilliant” Editor, Religious Studies

Book 100 Days of Favor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Prince
  • Publisher : Charisma Media
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1616384492
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book 100 Days of Favor written by Joseph Prince and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2011 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince invites readers to embark on a purposeful and powerful journey in discovering and experiencing the unmerited favor of God.