John Behr is the Regius Chair in Humanity at the University of Aberdeen. He previously served as Fr George's Florovsky Distinguished Professor of Patristics at St Vladimir's Seminary, where he acted as Dean from 2007-17, and the Metropolitan Kallistos Chair of Orthodox Theology at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. His publications include critical editions and translations of the fragments of Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopuestia (2011) and Origen's On First Principles (2017). He is the author of Irenaeus of Lyons: Identifying Christianity (2013), Becoming Human: Theological Anthropology in Word and Image (2013), and Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000).

This is an important, highly learned work on the reception of John's Gospel and the ways that its message shape both theology and Christian practice. Scholars, theologians, and historians of interpretation will be edified by this book, as it pertains to the ways that different communities read the same scripture differently, as well as the way that the book illuminates relationships between interpretation, theology, and practice as it pertains to the Gospel of John.

• Abbreviations Introduction: The Gospel of John and Christian Theology Part I: John The Theologian And His Paschal Gospel 1: John the Evangelist 2: The Paschal Gospel Part II: 'It Is Finished' 3: 'The Temple of his Body' 4: 'Behold the Human Being' 5: The Prologue as a Paschal Hymn Part III: The Phenomenology of Life in Flesh 6: Johannine Arch-Intelligibility 7: History, Phenomenology, and Theology Conclusion: A Prologue to Theology Bibliography Index of cited passages Index of authors

John Behr is the Regius Chair in Humanity at the University of Aberdeen. He previously served as Fr George's Florovsky Distinguished Professor of Patristics at St Vladimir's Seminary, where he acted as Dean from 2007-17, and the Metropolitan Kallistos Chair of Orthodox Theology at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. His publications include critical editions and translations of the fragments of Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopuestia (2011) and Origen's On First Principles (2017). He is the author of Irenaeus of Lyons: Identifying Christianity (2013), Becoming Human: Theological Anthropology in Word and Image (2013), and Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement (2000).

This is an important, highly learned work on the reception of John's Gospel and the ways that its message shape both theology and Christian practice. Scholars, theologians, and historians of interpretation will be edified by this book, as it pertains to the ways that different communities read the same scripture differently, as well as the way that the book illuminates relationships between interpretation, theology, and practice as it pertains to the Gospel of John.

• Abbreviations Introduction: The Gospel of John and Christian Theology Part I: John The Theologian And His Paschal Gospel 1: John the Evangelist 2: The Paschal Gospel Part II: 'It Is Finished' 3: 'The Temple of his Body' 4: 'Behold the Human Being' 5: The Prologue as a Paschal Hymn Part III: The Phenomenology of Life in Flesh 6: Johannine Arch-Intelligibility 7: History, Phenomenology, and Theology Conclusion: A Prologue to Theology Bibliography Index of cited passages Index of authors