Believing through Him: The Baptist in the Prologue to John's Gospel - Stephen Chester

Scripture and Theology: Fall Colloquium

The Prologue of John’s Gospel (John 1:1—18) has been viewed by some scholars as the programmatic key to understanding the rest of the Gospel and the fullest revelation of God himself. Others, however, have viewed the Prologue as a later addition to the narrative parts of John (1:19 onwards), like a veranda built on to an existing house. Another way is to think of it is that even if an addition it might be just as old in its material, or if newer it could be a deep reflection on the message of the narrative of John.Questions of the extent to which John was written for a community or for the whole Church many decades after the time of Jesus continue to be important for grasping the meaning of the Fourth Gospel. How does that ‘context’ illuminate our take on the Prologue, or how much does the Prologue cast its own illumination on how the eternal being of God relates to historical humanity?

Papers in the Series
The Christ-hymn of John 1 - Paul Anderson (https://youtu.be/z-7YGA47M_Y)
In the Vineyard of the Word: A Figural-Ecclesial Reading of the Johannine Prologue - Joseph Mangina (https://youtu.be/9p2G10doWR8)
The Incarnation and the Eucharist in Aquinas's Commentary on John - Michael Dauphinais (https://youtu.be/M_dybbBTmK4)
Believing through Him: The Baptist in the Prologue to John's Gospel - Stephen Chester (https://youtu.be/F4BZB79bxMk)

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