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Gospel of Glory: Major Themes in Johannine Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Throughout Christian history, the Gospel of John’s distinctive way of presenting the life, works, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus have earned it labels such as “the spiritual Gospel” and “the maverick Gospel.” In this volume, leading biblical scholar Richard Bauckham illuminates main theological themes in the Gospel of John, providing insightful analysis of key texts. Some of the...

Gospel traditions.11 The only two occurrences of “kingdom of God” in this Gospel are early in the narrative, associated with “birth from above,” and are followed by a transition to talk of “eternal life” (3:3–16), which then becomes a frequent usage. This may seem to shift the emphasis from God’s eschatological renewal of human life in society in all its dimensions to something more narrowly spiritual. On the face of it, it might seem that, whereas in the Synoptic Gospels Jesus’s “acts of power”
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