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Voices of the Mystics: Early Christian Discourse in the Gospels of John and Thomas and Other Ancient Christian Literature is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Gospel of John has always been perceived as a more mystical Gospel than the Synoptics. This volume explores the mysticism of John in its historical context. It puts forward evidence that the mysticism developed in this text is the result of the textualization of a dialogue between the Johannine and Thomasine Christians on the subject of soteriology. In contradiction to the Christians who...

Taken together, this type of textual analysis is a hermeneutic that seeks to understand the discourse which ellicited the textualization and creation of an ideology. Furthermore, Traditio-rhetorical Criticism has the goal to reconstruct the modified ideology in relation to the religious traditions of the people involved. Thus the four main questions of Traditio-rhetorical Criticism are: 1. What is the situation that has ellicited the development of a particular ideology in a text? In other words,
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