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From the patristic period until today, John’s Gospel has served as a major source for the church’s knowledge, doctrine, and worship of the triune God. Among all New Testament documents, the Fourth Gospel provides not only the most raw material for the doctrine of the Trinity, but also the most highly developed patterns of reflection on this material—particularly patterns that seek to account in...

to substantive doctrinal ones thus fail to grasp the Bible’s main subject matter.14 Corroborating this (re)new(ed)15 methodological approach is an increased historical awareness that the church’s great dogmas, including the doctrine of the Trinity, originated not as a consequence of a priori theological reflection but instead as interpretative principles, principles that were derived from a believing engagement with Scripture.16 Indeed, Augustine traces his understanding of the Trinity to ‘all the
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