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Seeing by the Light: Illumination in Augustine’s and Barth’s Readings of John is unavailable, but you can change that!

How can we understand God’s revelation to us? Throughout the church’s history, theologians have often answered this question by appealing to a doctrine of illumination whereby the Holy Spirit shapes our knowledge and understanding of Scripture. Without denying the role of the Holy Spirit or the cognitive role of illumination, Ike Miller casts a broader vision of divine illumination and its role...

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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