Why John Wrote a Gospel Jesus-Memory-History

Name: Why John Wrote a Gospel Jesus-Memory-History
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ISBN: 9780664229054

ISBN-10: 0664229050

ISBN-13: 9780664229054

Edition: 2006

Authors: Tom Thatcher

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Nineteen hundred years ago, someone called the Beloved Disciple told stories about Jesus and his days on earth, including reports of what Jesus said and did. These stories had been told for decades, but then someone took the stories and wrote them down, turning them from oral tradition into the book we know as the Gospel of John. Scholars have long concentrated on the content of this Fourth Gospel, analyzing how it differs from the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and wondering how the different gospels relate to the Jesus of history. Thatcher builds upon all of this previous scholarship to ask a new and exciting Question: Why was this gospel written? Why would these followers of Jesus…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 12/19/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Tom Thatcher is Professor of New Testament at Cincinnati Christian University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he has taught for many years.



Prescript: Why Ask Why John Wrote a Gospel? or, What Difference Does This Make?



The Question-Why Write a Gospel?



Why Did John Write a Gospel?



Writing as Archive: The Fourth Gospel and the Medicine of Memory



John's Memory of Jesus



The Persistence of John's Memory



Writing as Rhetoric: The Fourth Gospel in John's Media Culture



The Memory Wars: Bent Frameworks, Countermemories, AntiChristianity



John's Memory Framework



One Way Back to Two Places: AntiChristian Countermemory



Jesus Now and Then: John's Dogmatic Memory



AntiChristian Mystical Memory



The Answer-Memory and History



"Everything That Rises Must Converge": The Private Past in Memory



Beyond the Scope of the Present Study: The Public Past in History Books



Why John Wrote a Gospel


Postscript: The Original Quest for a Historical Jesus


Abbreviations


Notes


Works Cited


Index