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Father, Son and Spirit: The Trinity and John’s Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

What is more, this high Christology was entirely possible within strict Jewish monotheism. This explains why neither John nor the other NT writers evidence any consciousness of tension between the attribution of deity to Jesus and their Jewish monotheistic beliefs. Jesus’ inclusion in the unique deity was novel, but did not compromise Jewish monotheism. John’s Gospel also shows Jesus appropriating the divine name ’anî hû’ (LXX: egō eimi).41 At times, the expression is used simply meaning ‘I am’
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