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In recent years, the disciplines of biblical studies and systematic theology have grown apart and largely lost the means of effective communication with one another. Due to its profound influence on the development of Christian theology, John’s Gospel is an ideal base for rekindling dialogue between biblical studies and systematic theology. The essays here consider this Gospel from many angles,...

focusing on John in particular;9 and, most recently, John Ashton’s magisterial Understanding the Fourth Gospel has a major discussion of “dualism” also.10 These studies and others raise a number of issues that are worth our attention with a view to a more adequately contextualized and theologically suggestive interpretation of John. We may begin with the question of definition. Historian of religion and Gnosticism specialist, Ugo Bianchi, is helpful here: “As a category within
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