The Courageous Gospel: Resources for Teachers, Students, and Preachers of the Fourth Gospel

by Robert Allan Hill, Cathryn Turrentine (Introduction)

Overview

The Courageous Gospel is intended for use alongside a commentary (Ashton, Brown, Bultmann, Barrett, other) in a class introducing the Fourth Gospel. The book has four parts: -A succinct summary of key matters of introduction; -A collection of sermons on the Gospel's core chapters, with reflective reminiscence and remembrance of what Raymond Brown said in lecture about the Gospel thirty years ago; -A series of background lectures that attempt, on the one hand, to honor the key insights of the current opinion communis (that Jewish apocalyptic explains John) and, on the other hand, to open the door to further insights from an older perspective needed for a full appreciation of John (that the Hellenistic Gnostic background explains John); -A set of pedagogical appendices, employable in the classroom, to aid discussion. Together these components attempt to provide the necessary second book for an introduction to the Fourth Gospel, engaging the commentaries with the hermeneutical, homiletical, exegetical, and pastoral implications of a first-level study of John.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621897002
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	06/04/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	260
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Robert Allan Hill is Dean of the Chapel and Professor of New Testament and Pastoral Theology at Boston University School of Theology. He is the author of Renewal: Thought, Word, and Deed (2009), Seeing with the Heart: Devotions from Marsh Chapel (2010), and Prophetic Protestant Sermons on America's War in Iraq (2009).
Robert Allan Hill is the dean of Marsh Chapel, a professor of New Testament and pastoral theology at Boston University, and the author of seventeen books. Since 1981, he has taught at institutions including McGill University, Syracuse University, Lemoyne College, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, Northeastern Seminary, United Seminary, and in various church settings. His weekly sermon can be heard live at Marsh Chapel on Sundays at 11 a.m. ET, and around the globe at bu.edu/chapel.

Table of Contents

Frontispiece vii

Part 1

1 Abstract 3

2 Introduction Cathryn Turrentine 6

3 Summary of Courages in John 17

Part 2

4 Two Battles-John 1:1-18 21

5 Two Brides-John 2:1-11 29

6 Two Births-John 3:1-16 36

7 Two Biographies-John 4 43

8 Two Blessings-John 6 51

9 Two Beggars-John 9 58

10 Two Beliefs-John 11 65

11 The Spirit of Truth: Communion-John 13 71

12 The Spirit of Truth: Conversation-John 14 75

13 The Spirit of Truth: Commandment-John 15 83

14 The Spirit of Truth: Catechesis-John 16 89

Part 3

15 An Embraceable Variant-John 17:1-11 95

16 An Introduction to Gnosticism for Students of John Jason Ford 102

17 Book Review: Understanding the Fourth Gospel 116

18 Teaching through John Ashton 119

19 Summary-Raymond E Brown 128

20 "The Word Being Made Flesh, and the Priesthood of All Believers" Ray L. Hart 131

21 The Community of the Beloved Disciple Raymond E Brown 138

22 The Gnostic Worldview: Frederik Wisse Lectures 142

23 The Jewish Background to the New Testament 153

24 The Two Level Drama 160

25 The Insights of George MacRae Jason Ford 165

26 Gnosticism-Gnosis, The New Testament, and the Gospel of John 175

27 Toward a New View of Eschatology in Gnosticism 187

28 Hills Thesis 194

29 An Overview of Hill's Thesis 195

30 The Treatise on the Resurrection 201

Part 4

31 A Brief History of Christian Theology 225

32 The Gospel of John-Final Examination 227

33 The Gospel of John-Midterm Examination 228

34 The Gospel of John-Quiz#0 231

35 The Gospel of John-Quiz#1 233

36 The Gospel of John-Quiz #2 234

37 The Gospel of John-Ashton Content: Quiz #3 236

38 The Gospel of John-Ashton Content: Quiz #4 238

39 The Gospel of John-Quiz #5 240

40 The Gospel of John-Quiz #6 241

41 Finale: The Gospel of John for Today 243