Dwelling in the Household of God

Johannine Ecclesiology and Spirituality

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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In her remarkable first book, God Dwells With Us: Temple Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel, Mary L. Coloe, P.B.V.M., explored the profound insight of John's Gospel expressed in Jesus ' invitation to his disciples: Make your home in me, as I make mine in you (John 15:4). For the gospel's author and audience, the dwelling of God among humans was, above al, the Jerusalem Temple. The gospel traces how 'after the trauma of the destruction of the Temple 'the Johannine community came to expand and deepen its knowledge of God's dwelling among humans, finding it now in the person of Jesus and in the community of believers.Dwelling in the Household of God moves us from seeing God's dwelling place as the Temple to seeing God's dwelling place within the community of believers. The starting point now is an image in John 14:2: my Father's house, which is given its Old Testament meaning of my father's household. Our awareness thus moves, like that of the first Christians, from understanding My father's house as the Temple (John 2:16) to My Father's Household as a community of believers drawn into Jesus ' own divine filiation. Coloe invites us to re-read the gospel from the post-Easter perspective of those who have become brothers and sisters of Jesus and living Temples of God's presence. What emerges is nothing less than a profound mysticism of the mutual indwelling of God and believers.

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Utgivningsdatum:2007-04-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:312 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Liturgical Press
Medarbetare:SandraM. SchneidersIHM
ISBN:9780814659885

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Mary L. Coloe, PBVM, is professor of New Testament at Yarra Theological Union, a college of the University of Divinity in Melbourne. Mary taught for over twenty years at Australian Catholic University and also at Boston College, the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, and in Jerusalem. Mary has many academic publications on the Gospel of John, as well as books to help parents and teachers, such as A Friendly Guide to John, The Two Hands of God, and A Friendly Guide to the Birth of Jesus. Mary has also written an introduction to the Johannine literature for the new revised edition of the Jerome Biblical Commentary. Sandra M. Schneiders, IHM, is professor emerita in the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Her many books include her trilogy Religious Life in a New Millennium, Written That You May Believe: Encountering Jesus in the Fourth Gospel; and, from Liturgical Press, The Revelatory Text: Interpreting the New Testament as Sacred Scripture.

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The volume will be of great value to graduate students and scholars wishing to learn more of the richly symbolic world disclosed in John’s Gospel.Horizons

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ContentsForeword viiPreface ixAbbreviations xi1. Introduction 12. John as Witness and Friend 173. Gathering the Household: John 1:19-51 394. Life in the Household: Nicodemus’ Story 595. Death in the Household of God: John 11 836. Anointing the Household of God: John 12:1-8 1057. Welcome into the Household of God: John 13 1238. Dwelling in the Household of God: John 14:1–15:17 1459. Resurrecting the Household of God: John 20:19-29 16710. The Household of God 193Bibliography 203Index of Authors 217Index of Biblical References 221