"It is the Spirit that gives life" : a Stoic understanding of pneuma in John's Gospel / Gitte Buch-Hansen.

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Buch-Hansen, Gitte

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TextSeries: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche ; Beiheft 173.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 502 pages)Content type:

text

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9783110225983
3110225980
9783110225976
3110225972

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: "It is the Spirit that gives life".DDC classification:

226.5/06709015 22

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BS2615.6.H62 B83 2010eb

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Contents:

Frontmatter; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. History of Research. Cosmos in the Fourth Gospel; Chapter 2. Cosmology in Stoicism. The Discourse of Physics; Chapter 3. Philo's Divine Generation. The Safer Way to Truth; Chapter 4. The First Pneumatic Event. The Descent of the Spirit as Jesus' Divine Generation; Chapter 5. John's Call from the Wilderness for a Better Guidance of the Way to the Lord; Chapter 6. Regeneration as Hermeneutical Competence. The Johannine Signs and the Meta-Story of Pneumatic Transformations.

Chapter 7. The Penultimate Pneumatic Event. "It Is the Spirit That Gives Life" (6:63). Jesus' Ascent and Translation into the FatherChapter 8. The Ultimate Pneumatic event. Worshippers in Spirit and Truth. The Quest for the Father The Quest of the Father; Backmatter.

Summary: Since Origen and Chrysostom, Johns Gospel has been valued as the most spiritual among the New Testament writings. Although Origen recognizes the Stoic character of Johns statement that "God is pneuma" (4:24), an examination of the gospel in light of Stoic physics has not yet been carried out. Instead the Johannine spirit has been absorbed into the Word and lost its distinct character as physical mediator between the divine and humane spheres. Combining her insight into Stoic physics and ancient physiology, the author situates her thesis in the major discussions of modern Johannine.

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Since Origen and Chrysostom, Johns Gospel has been valued as the most spiritual among the New Testament writings. Although Origen recognizes the Stoic character of Johns statement that "God is pneuma" (4:24), an examination of the gospel in light of Stoic physics has not yet been carried out. Instead the Johannine spirit has been absorbed into the Word and lost its distinct character as physical mediator between the divine and humane spheres. Combining her insight into Stoic physics and ancient physiology, the author situates her thesis in the major discussions of modern Johannine.

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