John’s Gospel is consumed with long narratives of engagements with single individuals. Many of these passages present us with an individual encountering Jesus in life-transforming ways. Second, this Johannine material places a strong emphasis on Jesus as the light (Jn 1:9) and as the light of the world (Jn 8:12). This challenges us to consider the christological and trinitarian aspects of illumination in addition to its grounding in pneumatology. Augustine’s and Barth’s exegesis of John will show
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