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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...

with reference to Jesus (rooted, again, in Jesus’ own usage). Through its messianic exegesis of these two Psalms references and other similar passages, the early church came to confirm what it was already beginning to believe on the basis of Jesus’ self-consciousness and his resurrection. In Psalm 110:1, the early church found biblical grounding for the notion of Jesus’ resurrection as his exaltation to God’s right hand (see esp. Acts 2:34–35). Importantly, the early Christians did not view Jesus’
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