Conversion in the Fourth Gospel

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Verbum Vitae Pub Date : 2022-12-21 DOI:10.31743/vv.14432

Dawid Ledwoń

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Abstract

The essence of the proclamation of the Good News is a call to conversion, which seems absent from the Fourth Gospel due to the lack of any direct reference. The biblical idea of conversion is first expressed there by a call to believe in Jesus as the Son of God; then by the repeated motif of coming out of darkness into the light, approaching and discovering (accepting) the truth; being born of God and the Spirit, approaching Jesus, testifying about him, accepting and following him, and finally glorifying God. This study aims to present this multi-faceted process, whose framework is outlined by John, first in the prologue to his Gospel and then developed in the narrative. The same order is applied in the individual stages of this analysis employing a synchronic approach, which enables the readers to derive the edifying call to turn to Jesus and follow him to gain eternal life from the final, i.e., canonical, version of John’s text.

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第四福音中的皈依

宣布好消息的本质是呼吁皈依，由于缺乏任何直接参考，第四福音中似乎没有这一点。圣经中关于皈依的思想首先在那里通过呼吁相信耶稣是上帝的儿子来表达；然后是从黑暗中走到光明中，接近并发现（接受）真理的反复主题；从神和圣灵所生，接近耶稣，为他作证，接受并跟随他，最后荣耀神。本研究旨在呈现这一多方面的过程，其框架由约翰概述，首先在他的福音序言中，然后在叙事中发展。同样的顺序也应用于这一分析的各个阶段，采用共时方法，使读者能够从约翰文本的最终版本（即规范版本）中获得转向耶稣并跟随他获得永生的启迪。

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Verbum Vitae Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies

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0.70

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16 weeks

期刊介绍： Published since 2002, "Verbum Vitae" is issued biannually by the Institute of Biblical Studies of the Faculty of Theology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. Each issue of the journal includes scholarly articles dedicated to a specific biblical theme and presented in three sections: (I) Old Testament, (II) New Testament, and (III) Patristics and the Life of the Church. The final "Life of the Church" perspective tries to broaden out each issue''s given topic into its multiple connections and implications, mostly dogmatic, moral, pastoral, liturgical, or sociological. The forth section of the journal always consists of reviews of recently published monographs and collections on biblical themes. Because of the journal''s interdisciplinary character, it seeks to include among the contributors not only biblical scholars but also theologians of various specializations.