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The Missions of Jesus and the Disciples according to the Fourth Gospel: With Implications for the Fourth Gospel’s Purpose and the Mission of the Contemporary Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

This important new work explores in depth the relationship between the mission of Jesus and of the disciples as presented in the Gospel of John, and explores the implications of these findings for the contemporary church. Based on a comprehensive semantic field of study that integrates biblical studies, theology, and missiology, this volume represents the first time such an approach has been used...

further terminology comprising the Johannine mission concept will be identified. It will also be recognized that the notion of mission may still be present where no explicit mission word is used. This study also attempts to make a contribution toward the answer of a theological problem. How are the missions of Jesus and of the disciples related? On the one hand, the Fourth Gospel stresses the uniqueness of Jesus’ person and work. On the other hand, it patterns the sending of the disciples after that
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