1, 2, and 3 John: An Introduction and Study Guide

Regular price €22.99
1 Corinthians
1 John
1 Peter
1 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Corinthians
2 John
2 Peter
2 Thessalonians
2 Timothy
3 John
A01=Prof. Warren Carter
A01=Warren Carter
Acts
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Audience
Author
Author_Prof. Warren Carter
Author_Warren Carter
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HRCF2
Category=QRMF13
Colossians
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Demetrius
Diotrephes
dualisms
elder
Ephesians
eq_isMigrated=2
Gaius
Galatians
Gospel of John
Hebrews
independent
Irenaeus
itinerant
James
Johannine community
John
Jude
Judith Lieu
lady
Language_English
Luke
Mark
Matthew
mirror reading
narrative fiction
order
PA=Available
Philemon
Philippians
polemic
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
Raymond Brown
Recipients
Revelation
Romans
schism
secessionists
softlaunch
Titus
tradition
When
Where

Product details

  • ISBN 9780567704214
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Aug 2024
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock

10-20 Working Days
: On Backorder

Will Deliver When Available
: On Pre-Order or Reprinting

We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!

This insightful study engages the debates and interpretations of the brief and somewhat elusive writings known in the Christian canon as 1, 2, and 3 John. Chapter 1 identifies six unknowns about the origins of the three writings: authors, relationship to John’s Gospel, order, date and location of the writings, and their audiences. Chapters 2 and 3 delineate the debate concerning the relationship of these writings to a purported “Johannine tradition” and “Johannine community” in which a schism is claimed to have occurred. An alternative view recognizes that while there are some connections with John’s Gospel, it is more compelling to see the writings as independent rather than derivative, as internally not externally directed, as pastoral not polemical, and as schism-free. Chapters 4-7 discuss important aspects of 1 John. Chapter 4 argues that its structure or organization is based on rhetorical and conceptual links among the writing’s small units. Chapter 5 reads 1 John as a pastoral “in-house” writing, rather than a polemical attack on opponents. Chapter 6 identifies the genre of I John as not a letter or sermon but an epideictic speech that seeks to strengthen the identity, commitments, and practices of its believing recipients. Chapter 7 outlines theological understandings that underpin the writing’s pastoral work. Chapters 8 and 9 focus on 2 and 3 John as writings that provide two different approaches to itinerant teachers. The narrative fiction in 2 John presents the elder’s warning and skepticism about itinerant teachers whereas the author of 3 John, by contrast, advocates reception and welcome for itinerant teachers.
Warren Carter is Meinders Professor of New Testament, Phillips Theological Seminary Tulsa, USA.