The Spiritual Gospel : the interpretation of the Fourth Gospel in the early church /
This book surveys the Greek fathers' interpretations of the Gospel of John from the earliest surviving commentary (Heracleon, c. 170) up to the early fifth century. It examines key themes and passages from the gospel and the varying methods of exegesis applied to them by different commentators,...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1960.
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Table of Contents:
- The authorship and purpose of the gospel
- The fourth gospel and the synoptic gospels
- Historicity and symbolism
- The signs
- Leading ideas of the gospel
- The fourth gospel and the gnostics
- Christological interpretation in the third and fourth cenutries
- The christological exegesis of Theodore and Cyril
- The gospel of salvation.
