Andrew Benko

Race in John's Gospel (eBook, ePUB)

Toward an Ethnos-Conscious Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Directly or indirectly, race makes many appearances in the Fourth Gospel. What is the meaning of all this attention to ethnic labels? Race in John's Gospel investigates how John reflects the racialized ideas current in its milieu, challenging some and adapting others. Ultimately, John dismisses race as valid grounds for prejudice or discrimination, devaluing the very criteria on which race is based. The cumulative effect of this rhetoric is to undermine the category itself, exposing earthly race as irrelevant and illusory. However, John's anthropology is layered, and looks beyond this unimportant earthly level. Above it, John constructs a heavenly level of racial identity, based on one's descent from either God or the devil.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978706194
• Artikelnr.: 55887247

Autorenporträt

Andrew Benko is Academic Dean of the Iona School for Ministry and serves as a priest in the Diocese of Texas (Episcopal).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction and Theory
Part I: "This World": Historical-Geographical Race
Chapter 2: Galileans
Chapter 3: Samaritans
Chapter 4: Judeans and Romans
Part II: "From Above": Cosmological Race
Chapter 5: Cosmological Race in Antiquity
Chapter 6: Cosmological Race in John
Conclusion
Epilogue: The Children Of The Children Of God
Appendix: A Comparison of Cosmological Races