An Insider's Church for Outsiders

The Gospel of John has a reputation among some New Testament scholars as a factional text designed to reinforce the Johannine Community's unity amid persecution and excommunication. Recent work, however, has proposed that John is in fact deeply ethical, with an outward-facing mission. This essay builds off this work to propose that John has a definitive missional praxis that he hopes his community will embody as it engages with the world. Examining specifically the "come and see" passages of John 1:39, 1:46, 4:29, and 11:34, this article suggests that John's method is dialectical: he simultaneously wants those in the church to remain in the church and resist assimilation with "the world", but he also wants those in the church to go into the world to understand it, empathize with it, and even befriend it, all for the sake of discipleship

Dialectic · Gospel · Insider · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Reputation · Sociology · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Christian Theology and Mission · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religious studies

• "Come and See"

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• Trauma & Typoi

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• Rethinking the Ethics of John

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• Durably reducing transphobia

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• Rhetoric and Drama in the Johannine Lawsuit Motif

  George Parsenios, George L Parsenios•Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen…•2010

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• The Two Governments and the Two Kingdoms in Luther's Thought

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• Mysterium Paschale

  Hans Urs Von Balthasar•Mysterium Paschale•1990

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• Was Martha of Bethany Added to the Fourth Gospel in the Second Century

  Open Access•Elizabeth Schrader•Harvard Theological Review•2017

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• A Grammatical and Contextual Inventory of the use of κόσμος in the Johannine Corpus With Some Implications for a Johannine Cosmic Theology

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• Printing and the Growth of a Protestant Movement in Germany from 1517 to 1524

  Open Access•Louise W Holborn•Church History•1942

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• The third place

  Open Access•Ramon Oldenburg, Dennis Brissett•Qualitative Sociology•1982

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