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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...

As Culpepper (1983: 113) astutely notes, God never appears in the Fourth Gospel, and the only words he speaks are ‘and I have glorified it, and will glorify it again’ (12:28).1 Hence ‘God is characterized not by what He says or does but by what Jesus, His fully authorized emissary, says about Him.’2 Moloney (1998: 47), likewise, registers the incisive point that according to the fourth evangelist (1:18), Jesus is telling God’s story. What this means,
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