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Spirit in the Writings of John: Johannine Pneumatology in Social-Scientific Perspective is unavailable, but you can change that!

Employing the methodology of social-scientific biblical criticism, the author investigates the pneumatology of John and 1 John. With particular attention paid to the spirit passages in John, the pneumatology of 1 John is studied with a view to the development between the two writings and to what this suggests about the socio-cultural context of the Johannine community. This study explores...

the authorship of John and 1 John to the same person.26 Nevertheless, despite the disparity between the works, the similarities shared by the two suggest a close relationship or influence. The traits in common between the two are all traits that could have been picked up by two writers sharing some sort of association with one another. This is especially true if one of those writers was purposely attempting to mimic the style of the other, as might have been the case with the author of 1 John (Dodd
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