Exploring Johannine ethics : a rhetorical approach to moral efficacy in the Fourth Gospel narrative /
"Exploring the ways of thinking and living that the narrative in the Gospel of John would likely have engendered Lindsey M. Trozzo utilizes rhetorical analysis to facilitate a fresh approach to the long-standing "problem" of Johannine ethics. She considers four rhetorical features: pa...
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Tübingen :
Mohr Siebeck,
[2017]
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| Series: | Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Setting the stage
- Johannine ethics in the History of scholarship
- Challenges in the pursuit of Johannine ethics
- Progress in the pursuit of Johannine ethics
- Defining the approach
- Ethics : what are we looking for?
- Rhetoric : how will we find it?
- Additional introductory issues
- Outlining the project
- Participation in the bios genre : Moral efficacy and audience engagement in narrative biography
- Exploring the genre of the fourth Gospel
- Gospel genre : the state of the question
- Genre theory : from exclusive categorization to flexible participation
- Rhetoric and ethics in Plutarch's Lives
- Conclusion
- Incorporation of encomiastic topics : unity with God as the foundation for elevated community
- Examining the rhetorical forms of the fourth Gospel
- The encomiastic topics in their rhetorical context
- The encomiastic topics in the fourth Gospel
- Conclusion
- Metaleptic extension of encomiastic topics : elevated christology, elusive ethics, and the situation of the johannine community
- Christology and ethics in the fourth Gospel
- Elevated christology in the fourth Gospel
- The tension between Johannine christology and Johannine ethics
- Metalepsis and the fourth Gospel
- Defining metalepsis
- Metaleptic elements in the fourth Gospel
- The two-level drama
- Extension of the encomiastic topics
- Lingering questions
- Appropriation of structural devices : prologue, chain-link, and themes for interpreting the Macro-level rhetorical trajectory
- Introduction
- Rhetorical structure as a guide to interpretation
- The prologue (John 1:1-18)
- The chain-link interlock (John 12:20-50)
- Summary to part 1
- Love one another
- Was the johannine community a sectarian group?
- Is the Johannine love command exclusive?
- Is John interested in the spiritual dimension to the neglect of physical welfare?
- Summary to part 2
- Conclusion : articulating Johannine ethics
- Concluding summary
- The Gospel's relationship with the Johannine epistles
- What can we say about Johannine ethics?
- Bibliography
- Select primary literature
- Secondary literature
- Index of references
- Index of modern authors
- Index of subjects.